whoop
(noun) a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
hack, whoop
(verb) cough spasmodically; “The patient with emphysema is hacking all day”
whoop
(verb) shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm; “The children whooped when they were led to the picnic table”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
whoop (plural whoops)
A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
A bump on a racetrack.
whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)
(intransitive) To make a whoop.
(transitive) To shout, to yell.
To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
• See also shout
Corruption of whip.
whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)
(transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
(transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.
Source: Wiktionary
Whoop (, n. Etym: [See Hoopoe.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The hoopoe.
Whoop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping.] Etym: [OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i.]
1. To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl. Each whooping with a merry shout. Wordsworth. When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. W. Browne.
2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Whoop, v. t.
Definition: To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome. Shak.
Whoop, n.
1. A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl. A fox, crossing the road, drew off a considerable detachment, who clapped spurs to their horses, and pursued him with whoops and halloos. Addison. The whoop of the crane. Longfellow.
2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
