• enPR wo͞op, IPA: /wuːp/, /ʍuːp/ or enPR: ho͞op, IPA: /huːp/

whoop (plural whoops)

1. A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
2. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
3. A bump on a racetrack.

   Synonym of whoop-de-doo#English|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.

• French: hurlement
• Italian: grido, urlo
• Russian: во́зглас

• Italian: urlo della pertosse
• Russian: (ко́клюшный) ка́шель

whoop (whoops, present participle whooping; past and past participle whooped)

1. (intransitive) To make a whoop.

   • 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. (transitive) To shout, to yell.
3. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene v]:

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

• See also Thesaurus:shout

• French: hurler

• Russian: ги́кать

• enPR wo͝op, IPA: /wʊp/, /ʍʊp/

whoop (whoops, present participle whooping; past and past participle whooped)

1. (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
2. (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.

• Italian: picchiare, colpire
• Russian: колоти́ть

• Italian: annientare
• Russian: разгроми́ть