hoop¹ /hoop/

1. A ring or circular band, esp for holding together the staves of casks, etc
2. Any large ring, eg for a child to roll, for leaping through, for holding wide a skirt
3. A ring
4. A croquet arch

1. To bind with hoops
2. To encircle

hoopˈer noun

1. A person who hoops casks
2. A cooper

hoopˈ-ash noun

1. A kind of ash used for making hoops
2. The nettle-tree (genus Celtis)

hoopedˈ-pot noun

A drinking-pot with hoops to mark the amount each person should drink

hoopˈ-la interjection

Orig used at a circus when a performer jumped through a hoop

noun

1. A fairground game in which small hoops are thrown over prizes
2. Great activity, excitement or disturbance
3. Pointless activity, nuisance, nonsense (US sl)

hoopˈ-snake noun

Any of several harmless snakes, once erroneously believed to be capable of forming themselves into a hoop and rolling over the ground

go through the hoop

To suffer an ordeal, undergo punishment

jump through hoops

To go through complicated procedures in order to please or satisfy

whoop /(h)woop or hoop/, also hoop /hoop/

1. A loud eager cry
2. A Native American war cry
3. A form of hide-and-seek
4. /oop or hoop/ the long noisy inspiration heard in whooping cough

1. To give a loud cry of triumph, eagerness, scorn, etc
2. To hoot

1. To cheer or insult with shouts
2. To summon, or to urge on, by whooping

Ho!

whoopˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that whoops
2. A whooping swan or whooping crane (also hoopˈer)

whoopˈing noun and adjective

whooper swan noun

A swan (Cygnus cygnus) with a whooping call, common in N Europe and Asia

whooping cough or hooping cough noun

Pertussis, an infectious and epidemic disease, mostly attacking children, characterized by catarrh of the respiratory tract with bouts of violent coughing that end in a long gasping inspiration

whooping crane noun

An American crane (Grus americana)

whooping swan noun

A whooper swan

whoop it up (informal)

To indulge in noisy boisterous amusements or celebrations

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