whoopverb [ I ]
uk/wuːp/us/wuːp/to give a loud, excited shout, especially to show your enjoyment of or agreement with something:
The audience was whooping and clapping.
See also
whooping cough
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Expressing and showing feelings
- abandon
- affective
- be in/get into a state idiom
- beat your breast/chest idiom
- beetroot
- bubble
- expression
- flame
- hot and heavy idiom
- impassioned
- lose it idiom
- marvel
- moved
- pine
- throw
- viscerally
- vocalize
- wear your heart on your sleeve idiom
- whimper
- wring your hands idiom
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Sounds made by humans with their mouths
Idiom(s)
whoop it up
whoopnoun [ C ]
uk/wuːp/us/wuːp/a loud, excited shout, especially showing your enjoyment of or agreement with something:
When the whoops and cheers had finally died down he started to speak.
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Shouting & screaming
- barracking
- bawl
- be in full cry idiom
- bellow
- burst
- burst out
- call (sth) out
- clamour
- cry out
- howl
- roar
- scream your head off idiom
- scream/shout blue murder idiom
- screech
- shout
- shouting
- shriek
- squawk
- squee
- thunder
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