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Pronunciation : Whoop (
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [See Hoopoe.] (Zo?l.)
Definition : Defn: The hoopoe.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Whoop
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i.]
Definition : 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.

i. [imp. & p. p. Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Whoop
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To insult with shouts; to chase with derision. And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome. Shak.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Whoop
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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