Whoop meaning

She whoops with delight at a promise of money. • American English: ˈhup/ • Brazilian Portuguese: gritar de alegria ou de felicidade • Chinese: • European Spanish: • French: pousser des cris • German: • Italian: • Japanese: 歓声を上げる • Korean: • European Portuguese: gritar de alegria ou de felicidade • Spanish: • Thai: ร้องด้วยความดีใจ

Recent Examples on the Web The terrible, undulating war whoops of the attackers were soon joined by sharp shrieks of women pierced by arrows and the cries of men being killed with pangas. — Nick Turse, Teen Vogue, 14 Nov. 2018 These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'war whoop.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.

whoop Other forms: whooping; whoops; whooped A whoop is a noise you make when you're celebrating something exciting. Just listen to the whoops and cheers from the crowd when your school's basketball team unexpectedly wins the championship! The joyful hooting of friends hearing your good news, the cheers of fans celebrating a bowler's strike, or the call of a cowboy urging a horse forward — these are all whoops. You can use this word as a verb too, as when you whoop with joy or laughter, or in the colloquial phrase whoop it up, meaning "have a blast." Whoop sometimes also used for the distinctive cough of someone suffering from pertussis, also known as whooping cough.

Verb Though the team’s practice of doling out foam tomahawks has faded, the club still goads fans to whoop with the sounds of a beating drum. Major League Baseball and its commissioner, Rob Manfred, have done little to discourage the archaic mockery, either. — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021 Conner, who had spent eight days undergoing a grueling drug regimen to make room in his bone marrow for the stem cells, stirred but stayed asleep as nurses whooped and clapped during the half-hour, one-time infusion on March 16. — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023 So, life has whooped Inez’s ass, right? — Juliana Ukiomogbe, ELLE, 29 Mar. 2023 As Ro began to walk in a circle, Ms. Kitt broke into a wide smile, waving her hand above her head like a pageant queen as her family whooped and cheered, filming her on their phones. — Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023 The Ambersweet Margarita from Ambersweet inside the Confidante Miami Beach is going to cost you a whooping $125. — Amber Love Bond, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023 Little Madilyn, tittering, looks up at me and stuffs both hands into her mouth to stop from whooping. — E. Jean Carroll, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2018 Haydn’s wit is best administered in low doses, but alas, his 60th symphony would much rather whoop you upside the head. — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 24 July 2021 The support staff of Jimmy Kimmel Live (sidekick Guillermo and announcer Lou Wilson) took a minute or so to whoop it up in favor of...

• barracking • bawl • bellow • bray • burst • burst out • call ( something) out • clamour • cry • cry out • ejaculate • give someone a shout idiom • holler • howl • raise • shout • shouty • squawk • the hairdryer treatment • thunder (Definition of whoop from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)