Whoop

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The Hoopoe.

II. Whoop ·vt To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

III. Whoop ·vi To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

IV. Whoop ·noun A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

V. Whoop ·noun 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.

VI. Whoop ·vi 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.

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