whoop
/wuːp
/noun
1A loud cry of joy or excitement: a moment’s silence was followed by whoops of delight...
- Before he could even wonder what she had agreed to, he heard a loud whoop of joy.
- ‘Fine,’ she sighed and the guys and I let out a loud whoop of success.
- I jumped up in the air, letting out a loud whoop of joy.
Synonyms
shout, cry, call, yell, roar, scream, shriek, screech, hoot, hoop, cheer, hurrah
informal holler
archaic huzza
2huːp A long rasping indrawn breath, characteristic of whooping cough.When something really tickled Papa, he laughed silently, screwing his face up, his whole body shaking, only the occasional whoop escaping as he tried to catch his breath....
- Infants, older children and adults may have the cough with no whoop.
- Neither the common nor the Latin name give any indication that the hacking cough and haunting whoop are often followed by vomiting.
3(In motorcycling or cycling) a bump or dip on an off-road racetrack or rally course.You should always stand up over whoops.
verb [no object]
Give or make a whoop: all at once they were whooping with laughter...
- The soldiers were shouting and whooping and hollering.
- Finally his words were drowned out by the crowd, and they whistled, yelled, whooped, hollered and applauded in a frenzy.
- I can remember roaring and whooping in our house when the aforementioned Johnny won it for the second time with Hold Me Now.
Synonyms
shout, cry, call, yell, roar, scream, shriek, screech, hoot, hoop, cheer, hurrah
informal holler
archaic huzza
Phrases
not give (or care) a whoop
whoop it up
Origin
Middle English: probably imitative.
Rhymes
- functional illiterate
- functionalism
- functionalist
- functionality
- functionally
- functionally illiterate
- functional medicine
- functional shift
- functionary
- function key
- functionless
- function room
- function word
- functor
- fund
- funda
- fundal
- fundament
- fundamental
- fundamental frequency
- fundamentalism
- fundamentalist
- fundamentality
- fundamentally
- fundamental note