# whoop
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).

#### Alternative forms

* hoop, howp

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: wo͞op, hwo͞op, ho͞op, IPA: /wuːp/, /ʍuːp/, /huːp/
* Rhymes: -uːp
* Homophone: hoop (for one pronunciation of the noun and the associated intransitive verb)
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

whoop (plural whoops)
* A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
** 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):Mixed with the whoop of the crane and the roar of the grim alligator.
** 1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 30:[A] great whoop of victory sounded as finally they carried the fish up the beach.
* A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
* A bump on a racetrack.
    Synonym of whoop-de-doo
** 2006, Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know, page 104:The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]
** 2009, Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages, page 184:The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.

##### Derived terms

* big whoop
* millennial whoop
* war whoop
* whoop-up

##### Translations
#### Verb

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)
* (intransitive) To make a whoop.
** 1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars:each whooping with a merry shout
** 1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals:When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
* (transitive) To shout, to yell.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
* To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
* (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
** c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.

##### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:shout

##### Derived terms

* whoop it up

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.

#### Alternative forms

* whup

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: wo͝op, hwo͝op, IPA: /wʊp/, /ʍʊp/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Verb

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)
* (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
* (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.

##### Derived terms

* whoop ass
* open a can of whoop ass

##### Translations
### See also

* whoop-whoop
* whoopee
* whoops