Whoop /(?)/

1. The hoopoe. (Zool.)

imp. & p. p. Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping

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.

   When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

1. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

   And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be Whooped out of Rome.

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.

   The whoop of the crane.

2. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.