α. Middle English houp, 1500s hoopes (plural), 1600s– hoop.
β. 1500s whoup, 1500s–1600s whoope, 1600s– whoop.
whoopn.1
/wuːp/, /huːp/, /wʊp/, /hʊp/, U.S. /(h)wup/, /hup/, /(h)wʊp/, /hʊp/ 1. A cry of ‘whoop’, or a shout or call resembling this, used to attract attention, as a summons, or to express derision, defiance, support or encouragement, etc., or (now usually) exuberant excitement; spec. (Hunting) a cry of encouragement or celebration, esp. at the kill (cf. whoo-whoop int. and n.); a cry or yell on rushing into battle, esp. one used by (or said to be used by) North American Indians (cf. war-whoop n.).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations
O?c1225
heyc1400
hoc1405
whoopc1450
oha1535
ooh1602
whowb1602
phew1613
hogmanay1692
ah1712
yo-hope1724
whew1751
whoo1763
yah1812
yo-heave-ho1813
yoicks1817
yo-he-ho1827
yo1830
boo1833
yoick1854
hot-cha-cha1932
ooh-la-la1952
ooh-ah1957
eina1971
eish2005
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > shout of huntsmen
whoopc1450
sohoa1572
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whoo-whoop1611
view halloo1750
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view1903
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > whoop or hoot
whoopc1450
whooping1557
whooing1827
α.
β. 1580 W. Fulke Discov. Daungerous Rocke in Retentiue 167 Which saying is to be receyued with whoopes and hisses, of all men that haue their fiue witts.?1589 Whip for an Ape sig. A2 Such sohoes, whoopes and hallowes.1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 3 All with one voyce,..with whoopes, whowes and hoobubs, would thrust them out.1620 F. Quarles Feast for Wormes §6 When all thy laughter shall be turn'd to Doole;..Thy whoops of Ioy, to howles of sad lamenting.1675 in I. Mather K. Philip's War (1862) 246 They signified their sense of his approach by their whoops or watchwords.1709 W. King Useful Trans. in Philos. Jan.–Feb. 44 I must acknowledge my Happiness, who in a Manuscript found the following Verses,..Boys, Boys, come out to play, The Moon doth shine as bright as day; Come with a Whoop, come with a Call, Come with a good will or not at all.1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 277 Instead of sounding the usual whoop of defiance, I went on slowly.1808 F. Skurray Bidcombe Hill 9 O'er hedge and ditch we fly, 'Till the loud whoop proclaims the ended chase.1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxv. 233 With a joyous whoop the whole cluster took to their heels.1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages vii. 108 The first man I saw there was Archie Roylance, who greeted me with a whoop and announced that he was in town for a couple of days to see his doctor.1994 L. E. Williams Romance for Shawnee x. 149 With a whoop and a holler, the kids raced each other down the broad, sweeping staircase..and into the living room.2020 i-Independent (Nexis) 9 Nov. 19 There were cheers and whoops of delight in Philadelphia's bars as I watched this historic moment.c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) l. 167 Ho dide calle for to come to carpen him tille. Whan þei hurden is houp hastiliche aftur A lud to a litil boot lepus in haste.
1581 W. Fulke Briefe Confut. Popish Disc. f.14 Your victorie shalbe as glorious, as your argumentes bee forcible, meete to bee answered with hoopes and hisses of Sophisters.
1673 Bp. S. Parker Reproof Rehearsal Transprosed 26 You have..run them..all down with Hoops and Hola's.
1890 Our Darlings Nov. 35/1 Not a child was to be seen in the streets; not a hoop or a whistle or a shout was to be heard.
1967 Tammy Howl (Gulf Park College, Long Beach, Mississippi) July 2/2 Received with hoops and hollers, the day turned out to be one of the most successful excursions of the year.
2001 M. Willoughby Echo of Distant Drum vii. 86 Being boys, we regarded swords and shields only for fighting, and with hoops of delight were soon hammering away at each other with them.
2. A sound made by any of various animals or birds, esp. (in early use) the characteristic hooting call of some species of owl; (later also) the call of the whooper swan, whooping crane, or of some gibbons and monkeys.
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [noun] > sound made by
whoop1582
tu-whit tu-whoo1655
woo-hoo1656
hoot1791
tu-whoo1830
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1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. xxvii. f. 186/2 (Addition) This kinde of Owle is dogge footed, and couered with haire, his eyes are as the glistering Ise, against death hee vseth a straunge whoup.
1664 J. Scudamore Homer a la Mode 11 Well wot he whatsoe're birds spoke, Whether Owles hoop, or Ravens croke.
1671 E. Howard Six Days Adventure ii. 24 Why an unlucky Owl, gave a Whoop, and frighted her To the very place you see her shine in now.
1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 159 Something resembling the whoop of the night owl.
1879 R. H. Elliot Written on their Foreheads II. 6 The hoop-hoop-hoop of the large black-bodied, grey-bearded monkey.
1885 H. Saunders Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 4) IV. 317 [Comparing the call of the Bewick's swan with that of the whooper swan.] The note of this species..is very different from the ‘whoop, whoop-whoop, whoop,’ of its larger congener.
1967 Whooping Cranes Aransas Nat. Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Dept. Interior Fish & Wildlife Service) 3 The ‘whoop’ from which the bird received its name is a piercing call of Ker-loo, Ker-lee-oo, which can be heard for great distances.
2008 V. Ram Dreaming Vishnus iv. 36 A gale of langurs leap with great whoops.
3. A noisy, gasping intake of breath that follows a bout of coughing, esp. in the disease whooping cough.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > [noun] > coughing > whooping cough > whoop
whooping1669
whoop1779
β.
α. 1783 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic III. iii. vii. 274 This sound is somewhat different in different cases, but is, in general, called a Hoop, and from it the whole of the disease is called the Hooping Cough.1848 London Med. Gaz. 10 Mar. 396/2 Exposure to cold, or any trivial cause, would suffice to bring back the hoop.2012 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 9 Aug. 26 The well known symptoms of a run of coughing followed by a ‘hoop’ as the person breathes in is typical but does not always occur.1779 S. Musgrave Gulstonian Lect. i. 26 The Whooping Cough..receives its name from the convulsive Inspiration, or Whoop which sometimes comes on in the middle of the fit, and sometimes concludes it.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 239 When the whoop appears his power of communicating the disease begins to decline.
1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xiii. 169 The paroxysmal stage..is characterized by violent spasms of coughing, ending in the typical whoop.
2012 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 8 Oct. d1/1 Whooping cough..gets its popular name from the whoop that can accompany periodic coughing spells in the full-blown illness.
4. A children's game resembling hide and seek, in which one or more players have to look for others who have hidden themselves and who shout ‘whoop’, either as a signal that they are hidden, or before moving from one hiding place to another in order to confuse those looking for them. Also in figurative or allusive use. In later use Caribbean (esp. Trinidad and Tobago).For other, related names for versions of this game, see whoop all hid, whoop and hide, and whoop hide at whoop v. Phrases, and whoopers hide at whooper n. Phrases.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > hide-and-seek
belly-blind?a1500
buck-hide?a1500
king-by-your-leave1572
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hoopers hide1684
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whoop1784
keek-bogle1791
hide-and-coop1850
billy-blind-
buck-hood-
1784 Whole Proc. King's Comm. Peace (City of London & County of Middlesex) No. 7 v. 1117/2 He said he had been playing at whoop with an acquaintance.
1798 G. Elliot Let. 12 July in Windham Papers (1913) II. 77 He will not now be dodging with the world and playing at whoop with all his friends.
1869 Latest News 26 Sept. 16 He was playing at whoop.., and to avoid being discovered by a companion he got upon some new coping, which gave way.
1970 M. P. Alladin Village in Trinidad x. 41 Lucky children..were able to stay up later to play games such as lohar or salt house or hoop.
2003 R. Espinet Swinging Bridge xx. 270 Like..a young child, running all day through the land, between trees and bushes, lying on dirt, hiding between tree stumps and old boards while playing whoop.
5. A rushing, whistling, or wailing sound, such as that made by the wind, a missile travelling through the air, a siren or stream whistle, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > rushing sound
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whither?a1505
whithering1787
rushingness1833
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whooing1890
whoof1898
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > shrill quality > [noun] > whistle
whew1513
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1840 M. Wilson Chron. Life II. vii. 239 The wild whoops of the wind burst in loud clamour over the mansion.
1895 C. L. Norton Jack Benson's Log xiii. 233 I was brought to myself by the stunning report of a heavy gun close at hand and the whoop of a shell that seemed to pass close overhead.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 2/1 A faint whir crescendoes rapidly into the shrill whoop of a steam-siren.
1950 E. Marshall Infinite Woman xi. 93 The great whoops of the wind had become a sullen mutter beyond the thick stone walls.
2015 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. 1/5 They heard the siren's whoop and saw the blue light in the rearview mirror of their black pickup.
Phrases
P1. a whoop and a holler (and variants): a short distance.The relationship of quot. 1753 to the later evidence is unclear; in it, the fact that two whoops is one of a series of indications of the distance between two places, by the sounds audible between them.
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > a short distance
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furlong wayc1384
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straw brede14..
tinec1420
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field-breadth1535
field-broad1535
pair of butts1545
straw-breadth1577
stone's throw1581
way-bit?1589
space1609
piece1612
littlea1616
spirt1670
a spit and a stride1676
hair's breadth1706
rope's length1777
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a whoop and a holler1815
biscuit toss1836
biscuit cast1843
stone-shot1847
pieceway1886
stone-put1896
pitch-and-putt1925
pieceways1932
1753 C. Gist Jrnls. 27 Dec. (1893) 85 He said he could hear a gun to his cabin, and steered us more northwardly. We grew uneasy, and then he said two whoops might be heard to his cabin.]
1815 W. Scott Let. 19 Jan. (1933) IV. 13 We are much nearer neighbours and within a whoop and a hollow.
1896 Evening Record (Windsor, Ontario) 12 May 3/2 I reckon hit's 'bout two whoops... P'raps it may be a smitch furder.., but I 'low hit ain't more'n two whoops an' a holler.
1951 L. Craig Singing Hills 155 They lived in a cabin which Miriam said was three whoops and two hollers away.
1974 D. Sears Lark in Clear Air i. 14 A string of hounds..were only a whoop and a bellow behind father.
2017 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 27 Sept. (Features section) 8 Nelson Intermediate School is just a whoop and a holler from Waimea Road.
P2. North American. not to care (also give) a whoop: not to care in the slightest, to be unconcerned or indifferent; (also) not to matter (also be worth) a whoop: to be of no importance or value (cf. no big whoop at big whoop n.).Some examples with the form hoop may have been intended or understood as uses of hoop n.1
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the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)]
to put in no chaloir1477
not to care1490
to let the world wag (as it will)c1525
not to care a chip1556
to hang loose (to)1591
(to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632
not to careor matter a farthing1647
not to care a doit1660
(not) to care twopencea1744
not to give a curse (also damn)1763
not to care a dump1821
not to care beans1833
not to care a darn1840
not to give a darn1840
not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861
not to care (also give) a whoop1867
(to care) not a fouter1871
not to care (or give) a toss1876
not to give (also care) a fuck1879
je m'en fiche1889
not to care a dit(e)1907
je m'en fous1918
not to give a shit1918
to pay no nevermind1946
not to give a sod1949
not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960
not to give a stuff1974
1867 Idaho Semi-Weekly World 19 June I'll just wind up by saying, I wouldn't give a whoop in hell for the whole caboodle!
1870 Albany (Oregon) Reg. 21 May [They] aided the rebels by declaring ‘a cord of greenbacks not worth a whoop in hell’.
1900 T. J. Hains Mr. Trunnell vi. 96 That man don't care a whoop for all the owners livin'.
1907 Evening Democrat (Marysville, Calif.) 30 Aug. 6/1 It doesn't matter a whoop as the next election will mean another sweeping victory for the labor ticket.
1910 Burlington (Vermont) Free Press & Times 11 July 4/5 1910 Burlington Vermont Free Press & Times 11 July 4/5 They didn't give a hoop about dates—it was patriotism they wanted, and they got it.
1920 E. H. Jones Road to En-dor (ed. 2) xxvii. 313 I don't believe Enver Pasha cares two whoops whether I've had syphilis or not.
1952 Vancouver Province 11 July ii. 17/1 What amateur lawyers like Wolloschuk think doesn't matter a hoop.
2018 Philly.com (Nexis) 21 May He doesn't give a whoop what you think.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
whoopn.2
/wuːp/, U.S. /(h)wup/ Chiefly Motorcycling and Cycling.
A bump, ridge, or dip on a racetrack, rally course, etc., typically forming a series of such obstacles. Cf. whoop-de-do n. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > motorcycle racing or race > [noun] > specific part of course
whoop-de-do1972
whoop1975
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > bicycle race > [noun] > specific part of course
whoop-de-do1972
whoop1975
1975 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 26 Aug. 7/1 Kerry came out of the hole so fast he just barely hung on. And then he hit the whoops.
1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 15 June 37/5 The whoops were very deep and unpredictable and many riders were sorted right out on the first day.
2004 B. Kalman & K. Macaulay Extreme Snowboarding 27/1 Whoop-de-doos or ‘whoops’ are a series of jumps placed one after the other. Riders can jump the whoops or attempt to slide right over them.
2019 Crossroads (Manitoba) 20 Sept. 5/3 In some tracks we have motocross sections that have jumps, whoops, corners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
whoopv.
/wuːp/, /huːp/, /wʊp/, /hʊp/, U.S. /(h)wup/, /hup/, /(h)wʊp/, /hʊp/α. Middle English hope, Middle English hoppe, Middle English howpe, Middle English–1600s houpe, 1500s–1700s hoope, 1600s– hoop.
β. Middle English whowpe, Middle English–1600s whope, 1500s whooppe, 1500s whoup, 1500s whoupe, 1500s whup, 1500s–1600s whoope, 1500s– whoop, 1600s whop.
1. † b. transitive. Hunting and Falconry. To call or encourage (a dog, a hawk, etc.) with a whoop or whooping. Obsolete.† f. transitive. To utter a whoop or whoops at (a person); esp. (in early use) to hoot derisively at (someone). Also later: to assail or intimidate (an enemy) with war-whoops. Obsolete (rare in later use).† g. transitive. Hunting. To announce the discovery or starting of (the quarry) by shouting ‘whoop’. Cf. whoo-whoop int. and n. Obsolete. Somewhat rare.
a. intransitive. To utter a ‘whoop!’ or a cry or shout resembling this, typically in order to attract attention, as a summons, or to express derision, defiance, support or encouragement, etc., or (now usually) exuberant excitement.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > happen or move unexpectedly [verb (intransitive)] > shout with surprise
whoopc1390
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)] > with astonishment
whoopc1390
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > whoop or hoot
hoota1225
whoopc1390
whoo1599
to whoop out1704
α.
β. a1500 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 33994) l. 234 He [sc. the falconer] wharris & whotes hem & whopes [c1450 BL Add. 31042 quyppeys] ful lowde.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 781/2 Whooppe a lowde, and thou shalte here hym blowe his horne.1561 H. Bennet tr. P. Melanchthon Hyst. Lyfe & Actes M. Luther in Famous & Godly Hist. Three Reformers sig. E.viiv [They] scorned & scoffed the holy man in his way to his lodging, hallowing & hoopyng after hym a long whyle.1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Riij v I so sadlie syt whuppinge all the day vnder a hill.1593 M. Drayton Idea viii. sig. J4v With that the shepheard whoop'd for ioy.1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 91 They go no round,..but..one sentinel whopeth vnto another.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. ii. 105 Working so grossely..That admiration did not hoope at them.1735 Sportsman's Dict. I. at Haggard Falcon Let her be ever well in blood, or you may whoop for your hawk to no purpose.1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 160 To whoop..for the warriors to come and join him.1802 W. Wordsworth Cock is Crowing 15 The Ploughboy is whooping.1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 231 The hunters..whooping and blowing a mort, or death-note.1898 Surtees's Handley Cross (rev. ed.) I. vii. 57 Then if they killed!—..How they holloaed! How they whooped!1905 N.Y. Evening Post 4 Nov. 10 Anybody who knows anything will tell you that Cassidy cares not a rap whether McClellan wins. Openly, of course, Cassidy whoops for McClellan.1930 London Mercury Dec. 137 [The hounds] gave tongue in a shattered chorus, the huntsman whooped.., and the whole clamjamfry swept by me and in two minutes was gone.1992 Independent 17 Oct. 44/3 The Fulton County Stadium crowd whooped in disbelief.2021 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 1 Jan. a14 I went crazy when Kevin de Bruyne scored the winner from the penalty spot, wheeling round the lounge, whooping with delight.c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 159 ‘Nou be þe peril of my soule,’ quaþ Pers þe plouh-Mon... And hoped [a1425 Univ. Coll. Oxf. howpide; B text c1400 Laud 581 houped] aftur hunger þo þat herde him atte furste.
c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 175 (MED) He bigan to blowe and to houpe [Fr. juper].
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. L iv b Our Northern prikkers..sum hoopynge, sum whistelyng..never linde these troublous..noyses all ye night long.
1664 G. Etherege Comical Revenge i. ii. 5 You..hoop'd and hollow'd like Mad-men, and roar'd out in the streets.
1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 226 I intreated them to hoop and halloo..in hopes she might be able to hear.
1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. iv. 61 [He was] hooping and jumping like a half maniac.
1902 J. W. Stevens Reminisc. Civil War xxiv. 106 Some laughed, some cried, some hooped and yelled, some cussed and swore.
2013 J. Raley Dream Killers ii. 17 He was laughing, hooping, hollering, and yelling.
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a1500 (?a1400) Parl. Thre Ages (BL Add. 33994) l. 233 [The falconer] whopis hem to whirry.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) vii. xliv. 713 She must also be much whooped and gibbetted vnto, that she may be acquainted with the voice of the man, and with those sounds which she must obey and follow.
1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 80 Now she cries for the open air, for ranging the hills, for driving the woods, for whooping the dogs, for chasing the Stag.
1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. i. 19 There he stood.., with his fox grinning in grim death in one hand.., whooping and holloaing..the pack up to him.
c. transitive. With direct speech as object: to say or utter (something) with a whoop; to call out or yell excitedly.
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a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 353 As soone as he saugh hem comynge, he gan to whowpe, ‘A here, Arthur, ride faste.’
1727 J. Arbuthnot Hist. John Bull iii. viii. 62 The Attornies and their Clerks..whooping [1712 hooping] and hallowing, Long live John Bull.
1854 Leisure Hour 22 June 390/1 The miserable man uttered a frightful yell.—‘'Twasn't I,’ he whooped; ‘I tell you 'twasn't. I'll stand to it to my dying day.’
1900 A. Conan Doyle Green Flag 165 This round must decide it. ‘Mix it oop, lad; mix it oop!’ the iron-men whooped.
2003 Org. Style Sept. 56/1 By the time she had run her first race since the accident, I had managed to run a mile. ‘Oh, that is just wonderful!’ she whooped.
d. transitive with cognate object. To utter or express (words, a sentiment, etc.) by whooping, or with a whoop. Cf. to whoop out at Phrasal verbs.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > whoop or hoot
whoop1575
whoo1614
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xlii. 127 When the Harte is kylled, then all the huntesmen..shall blowe a note, and whoupe also a deade note.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 144 Whooping their revengeful noise.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Bedford-Row Conspir. ii Six lawyers' clerks might whoop a tipsy song..but beyond this all was silence.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots iv, in Pioneers of France in New World 44 An Indian chief..ran to meet them, whooping and clamoring welcome.
1938 H. Buxton Assignment Down East 86 Greeley poked an infuriated face out of a window and whooped a violent protest to Hickok.
2001 A. Emmet Mr. & Mrs. Club 57 Mrs. Clifford, looped with ropes of colorful beads, was whooping a welcome to Minx.
e. transitive. With adverb or adverbial phrase. To summon, urge, pursue, or drive (a person) with a whoop or whoops.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > incite or pursue with shout
hallowc1369
hoyc1536
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hue1590
hollo away?1602
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to bellow off1837
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel > specific people from a place, position, or possession > with derisive cries
whoop1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 39 Iuno..furth from the nauye the Greek foas Dooth whoup.
1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 10 Had it not bene better,..to haue caused a boy to come euery morning vnto the Popes chamber dore..who should haue whoopt him out of his bed, and bid him remember, that he was mortall?
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. v. 79 By th'voyce of Slaues to be Hoop'd out of Rome.
1893 A. Conan Doyle Refugees xxviii The English colonists were whooping on the demons who attacked them.
2013 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 24 May Radin growled and howled and the crowd whooped him along.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] > shout at
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to shout at, on (a person)c1384
whoop1658
din1674
ding-dong1797
1658 T. Flatman Naps upon Parnassus sig. E7v (margin) All to whoop him.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i. 29 I shou'd be hiss'd And whoop'd in Hell for that Ingratitude.
1902 Essex Weekly News 24 Jan. 2/6 When we charged down on the Boers we shouted and whooped them like redskins.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > whoop or hoot > summon, urge, etc., with
whoop1750
1750 J. S. Gardiner Art & Pleasures of Hare-hunting v. 48 Having met, and hooped her, she [sc. the hare] has redoubled back..and leaped off into some Hedge.
1866 Bailey's Mag. of Sports & Pastimes Mar. 123 Hurrying, scurrying, and whooping a fox when first found, and clapping the hounds onto his brush ere he has gained a hundred yards in advance.
h. transitive (reflexive). With complement. To bring (oneself) oneself into a particular state by whooping.
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1874 Mrs. C. Reade Rose & Rue III. ii. 14 Other members of the tribe [of bibliophilists] whooped themselves hoarse over choice editions.
1910 H. I. Hancock High School Capt. of Team xvi. 164 The wearied Gridley boosters suddenly rose and whooped themselves black in the face.
2013 M. Phoenix In Broken Places 320 When I'd whooped myself hoarse and hopped myself breathless, I plopped down in the middle of the floor.
2. intransitive. Of an owl: to make a hooting call; to hoot. Later also, of any of various other animals or birds: to make a hooting, whistling, or howling sound.Also transitive, with the call or someone to whom it is notionally addressed as object (cf. senses 1d, 1f).
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the world > animals > birds > order Strigiformes or owl > [verb (intransitive)] > hoot
hoota1500
whoopa1556
tu-whoo1824
tu-whit1866
tu-whoot1912
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a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. i. sig. C.iijv The howlet out of an yuie bushe should hoope.
1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. iv. 71 There are Owles of divers kindes: but I did never heare any of them whop as ours doe.
1658 T. Willsford Natures Secrets 134 Owls whooping after Sunset, and in the night, foreshews a fair day to ensue.
1677 N. Tate Poems 98 Madge has whoopt me twice from her Ivy-bound Oak.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere vii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 45 The Owlet whoops to the wolf below.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 33 The owl..whoop'd a ‘good-night’.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Concl. 163 Bats wheel'd, and owls whoop'd.
1850 Benares Mag. June 457 In Evangeline we hear the crane whoop and the alligator roar.
1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 52 Let the owl Whoop the high glories of the noon.
1916 C. M. Enriquez Burmese Enchantm. x. 131 In the forests of N'Sop Zup, the monkeys whooped and cooed.
2001 TES Primary July (Suppl.) 3/3 Listen to some rainforest sounds—dripping rain, birds calling, gibbons whooping.
3. intransitive. Medicine. To gasp noisily for breath after a bout of coughing, esp. in the disease whooping cough. Also transitive (reflexive) with complement: to come into a particular state by such coughing and gasping.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > respiratory spasms > have respiratory spasm [verb (intransitive)] > cough > whooping cough
whoop1679
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β. 1764 T. Marryat New Pract. Physick (new ed.) 353 It is from thence [sc. the lungs] the matter is ejected when they whoop and strain.1887 R. N. Carey Uncle Max xviii. 144 Whooping-cough,—why, he nearly whooped himself to death.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 242 Young infants whoop seldom.1921 Public Health (Michigan Dept. Health) 9 14 Michigan mothers, through ignorance and carelessness, have let their children ‘whoop’ themselves into their graves.1940 Jrnl. Pediatrics 16 25 He showed no adverse reaction to the serum and began to cough and whoop less from the third dose on.2006 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 22 July 159/2 The authors found that the children at greatest risk of a prolonged clinical course whooped, vomited, and produced sputum the most often.1679 tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis ii. 40 Inspiration, or Expiration being suppress'd for a space, the vital breath can scarcely be drawn; insomuch that coughing as being almost strangled they hoop.
1774 J. C. Lettsom Med. Mem. Gen. Dispensary London 287 On the 27th he hooped less frequently than he had done for several preceding days.
1833 London Med. Gaz. 12 194/2 Dr. Gregory knew a lady who never hooped in the disease..but she always fainted.
4. transitive. U.S. To increase or raise (a price, wages, etc.). Cf. to whoop up 4 at Phrasal verbs. Now rare.
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1887 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 9 Dec. 3/2 The foreign syndicate would soon brace up and whoop the price at least 10 per cent higher.
1896 G. Ade Artie xiv. 130 Since he went to the front for me and got my salary whooped I've got to be with him.
1953 Film Bull. 29 June 14/2 When we whoop the price for a cheaper made, poorer produced and namelessly casted 3-D experimental picture..we are really driving the customer bats.
Phrases
In various names for a children's game resembling hide-and-seek, in which one or more players have to look for others who have hidden themselves and who shout ‘whoop’, either as a signal that they are hidden, or before moving from one hiding place to another in order to confuse those looking for them. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. whoop n.1 4, whoopers hide at whooper n. Phrases.† a. whoop all hid. Cf. all hid n. Obsolete.
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1653 N. Hookes Amanda 30 Thus doth Morpheus court thine eye, Meaning there all night to lie; Cupid and he play hoop-all hid.
b. whoop and hide. Chiefly U.S. regional (chiefly south Midland and south-eastern) or historical in later use.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > hide-and-seek
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buck-hide?a1500
king-by-your-leave1572
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wink all hid1609
hoopers hide1684
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whoop and hide1710
hide-and-seek1724
whoop1784
keek-bogle1791
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1710–11 J. Swift Tatler 27 Jan. ⁋6 You played at Hoope and Hide with my Brother in the Garret.
1719 A. Smith Compl. Hist. Lives & Robberies Highway-men (ed. 5) I. sig. H Golsmith robb'd by a Thief playing at Whoop and Hide in his Ship.
1882 Derbyshire Times & Chesterfield Herald 5 Dec. Christmas Leaf Suppl. A game at Blind Man's Buff, Puss in the Corner, Questions and Commands, Hoop and Hide.
1959 N. Carolina Folklore 7 7 Besides spinning tops, birding, and bird-egging, there were episodes interjected for recreation, to keep monotony away: playing rabbit, fox and dog, ‘whoop and hide’, jumping the rope, all manner of ball games [etc.].
c. whoop hide. U.S. regional and rare or historical in later use.
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1850 Standard 31 Aug. After tea, we had a game at ‘whoop hide’.
1861 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret ii. 22 I thought they were to have a great game at whoop-hide.
1901 Essex County Chron. 11 Jan. 2/4 They met a little boy,..and they invited him to play ‘Whoop, hide’.
1940 in T. E. Barden Virginia Folk Legends (1991) vii. 41 Her and the rest of the children was playing whoop-hide around the house.
Phrasal verbs
to whoop out to whoop up
transitive. To utter (a cry, exclamation, etc.) as or with a whoop or hoot. Also and in earliest use intransitive: to utter a whoop; to yell or shout.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > whoop or hoot
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1704 T. Baker Act at Oxf. v. ii. 55 Oh this romantick kneeling! I shall hoop out like the Upper Gall'ry at a great jest.—Come, Berynthia, don't let him rub holes in his Stockings, give him your hand.
1724 ‘C. Johnson’ Gen. Hist. Pyrates (ed. 2) ix. 203 The whole clapping their Hands continually, and hooping out every Minute Abeo, which signify no more, than, how do you.
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xiii. 231 In the depths of darkness, the screech-owl sat upon his perch, brooding over the slimy pool, and whooping out a dismal curfew, that fell upon the ear like the cries of a tortured ghost.
1883 Good Words Aug. 544/1 They are careful to whoop out before ‘letting go’ with their slop-pails or dust-baskets.
1900 W. J. Chamberlin Let. 21 Oct. in Ordered to China (1904) 106 Colonel Daggett then called for three cheers for General Chaffee. They were given. Then three more for General Wilson, and they were whooped out.
1993 W. Baldwin Hard to catch Mercy iii. 91 My cousin dropped his solemn countenance and whooped out a laugh.
2013 H. Graham Serena's Magic (e-book ed.) i Then, like a kid at a watering hole, he whooped out a joyous cry and pelted into the water.
Originally U.S.† 1. transitive. To summon (a person or group) with whooping. Obsolete. rare.In quot. with reference to the use of whoops as signals or war cries by North American Indians.Apparently an isolated use.
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1814 Virginia Argus 16 July The Savage of the howling glen, Re-echoes the dread sound, And whoops up hordes to hunt our men, And deal destruction round.
2. transitive. To arouse enthusiasm for (a person, organization, cause, etc.); to promote or praise enthusiastically; (also) to give a boost to.
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to drive up1817
to whoop up1856
to jack up1884
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steepen1909
up1934
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > commend or praise [verb (transitive)] > for ulterior purpose
puffa1500
bepuff1843
to whoop up1856
boom1879
plug1900
1856 Boston Daily Atlas 24 Nov. Petulant, agaçante, piquant—she whips up the blood—she whoops up all the senses.
1868 Herald (Anderson, Indiana) 17 Sept. Four weeks yet until our Hoosier boys go into action... Whoop 'em up all round.
1885 South Florida Sentinel (Orlando) 5 Aug. 3/3 Whoop up Florida to those Yankees.
1893 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Nov. 21/2 It was about a stand-off; so both of them had to whoop up their dangerous adventures, and try to get ahead that way.
1894 Atlanta Constit. 24 Mar. 10/2 Last week he went over into South Carolina and came home hooping up the dispensary laws of that state.
1908 ‘Yeslah’ Tenderfoot S. Calif. iv. 42 These Californians who are eternally hooping up the glorious climate.
1950 Sun (Baltimore) 6 Nov. 3/2 Spokesmen for each party whooped up interest in the outcome.
1969 Manito (Mason County, Illinois) Rev. 19 Mar. 1/2 Both the parents and the students had cheerleaders dressed in full regalia, hooping up the fans.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 6/5 All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
1976 Listener 23 Sept. 375/1 If there was any temptation to whoop the original up into contemporary shape, he resisted it.
1983 Listener 14 July 19/2 It somehow won that year's Prix Italia,..which so immensely whooped me up that I galloped down to Venice to collect.
2008 National Business Rev. (N.Z.) (Nexis) 11 Apr. [He] seldom misses an opportunity for whooping up his organisation's eternal fight against the dishonest capitalist class.
3. to whoop it up.
a. transitive. To campaign for someone or something,esp. a politician or political cause, in a vocal or enthusiastic way.
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1872 Democratic Pharos (Logansport, Indiana) 2 Oct. Thomas A. Hendricks heads the list—a good and true man. Hoop it up for him to the tune of Five Hundred majority.
1888 Cent. Mag. May 156 His rival is a prominent politician, with an abundance of party workers to ‘whoop it up’ for him.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) ii. 19 I supposed that elsewhere in France there might be as many young enthusiasts whooping it up for De Gaulle.
1954 B. Hecht Child of Cent. iv. 230 Sherwood [Anderson] would be able to whoop it up for me in a half-dozen periodicals which had come to consider his word as artistic law.
2016 CNN Newsroom (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 9 Apr. More people are whooping it up for him and more people cast votes for him.
b. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy way; (also) to stir up political enthusiasm; similarly to whoop things up.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > public excitement > stir up or maintain public excitement [verb (intransitive)]
to make a scene of1804
agitate1828
to raise Cain1840
to whoop things up1873
the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > behave with riotous excitement [verb (intransitive)]
rehayte1526
tear1602
to play up1849
to whoop things up1873
to raise sand1892
to raise (also kick up, play, etc.) merry hell1931
to go ape1955
to go (also drive) bananas1957
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [verb (intransitive)] > stir up political enthusiasm
to whoop things up1873
agitate1918
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] > noisy or riotous
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to paint the town (red)1882
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to make whoopee1920
boogie1929
to beat it up1933
ball1946
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1873 Daily Cairo (Illinois) Bull. 28 Oct. They would find him out at twelve or one o'clock at night, whooping it up with the boys.
1881 Southern Collegian (Washington & Lee Univ.) Apr. 291 S. L. Mestrezar, '70-'71, is, to use our expression, ‘whooping things up’ in his part of the world, which is Uniontown, Pa.
1935 P. G. Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins iii. 37 You didn't by any chance..whoop it up with those mysterious foreign adventuresses who haunt those parts?
1944 Life 28 Feb. 90/2 The Prohibition era, when the blustery beer barons were whooping things up and getting their names in the public prints.
1956 ‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 136 Thousands of trippers whooping it up with pandemonium for most of the night.
1983 Listener 8 Sept. 24/2 The broadcasting moguls and their groupies whooped it up in Edinburgh and other select watering holes.
2019 Trail (Brit. Columbia) Daily Times (Nexis) 12 Sept. The graduates of 1954 are back together in Trail this week ready to whoop it up for their 65th high school reunion.
c. transitive. To create a noisy disturbance.
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1875 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Sentinel 26 Mar. [They] were obliged to fork over each a five dollar bank note for disturbing the peace of the city last night, and ‘hooping it up’ with unseemly noise on the street.
1887 T. Stevens Around World on Bicycle I. 11 They simply, in the language of the gold fields, ‘turned themselves loose’, ‘made things hum’, and ‘whooped 'em up’ around the bar-room of their village for..three days.
2019 Balladeer's Blog (Nexis) 30 July Russian Bill and his pal Sandy King often got roaring drunk and rode through Shakespeare whooping it up and shooting their guns in the air.
4. transitive. To increase or raise. Now rare.
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1887 Evening Tel. (Dixon, Illinois) 17 Dec. Our new grain firm are hooping up prices; giving us quite a boom here.
1904 Sun (N.Y.) 8 Sept. 10 The bail was reduced to $10,000, but was whooped up to $15,000 when Larry was re-arrested.
1947 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 13 Dec. 7/5 We shall go on whooping up wages, despite the fact that we shall also be whooping up prices.
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/wuːp/, /huːp/, /hwuːp/, /wʊp/, /hʊp/, /hwʊp/, U.S. /(h)wup/, /hup/, /(h)wʊp/, /hʊp/α. Middle English–1600s whop, 1500s whope, 1500s whoup, 1500s–1600s whoope, 1500s–1600s whup, 1500s– whoop.
β. 1600s–1800s hoop.
See also whoop-whoo int. 1. † b. Combined with another interjection or a meaningless sound, or prefixed to a personal name, often in the refrain of a song. Obsolete.Quot. 1608 is sometimes interpreted as a reference to the refrain of a song, but it has also been interpreted as showing a use of sense 1a.
a. Representing a cry or exclamation used to attract attention, as an incitement or encouragement to action, or to express derision, surprise, etc., or (now esp.) exuberant excitement or delight. Also reduplicated.In earliest use spec. (Falconry): representing a cry used to summon a hawk.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [interjection] > whoop or hoot
whoop?a1450
woo-hoo1697
whoo-ee1811
whoopee1827
whoop-de-do1895
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β. 1656 in J. Phillips Sportive Wit i. 62 The woman for fear began to start, And out she thrust a most horrible fart. Hoop, hoop quoth the little devil; come again, I say, Here's another hole broke hard by, by my fay.1687 W. Winstanley Lives Eng. Poets 211 The merry gale was all in Poop, Which made the Trojans all cry Hoop!1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 2. ⁋2 Hey! Hoop! d'ye hear my damn'd obstrep'rous Spouse!1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 285 When they are hid [sc. one of the boys playing Harry-racket (hide and seek, or hoop and hide)] one of them cries hoop, as a signal for those at home to seek after them.1899 F. Norris McTeague v. 76 From time to time during the day Mrs. Sieppe appeared on the back doorstep, crying shrilly, ‘Hoop, hoop!’ She threw lumps of coal at him, waking him to his work.?a1450 Percy Poem on Falconry (Yale) l. 497 in Studier i Modern Språkvetenskap (1968) 3 26 Crye longly ‘Wlope’ [read Whope] on her fedyng, And vse her ofte in-to that wyse.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 110 What, wyll thou not yit, I say, let the shepe go? Whop!
1568 Newe Comedie Iacob & Esau i. i. sig. A.iijv Whoup. Nowe a mischief on all mopying fooles for mee.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epitome sig. F3 Whope papist, say the puritans, is that become scripture with you?
1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Bb8v Sir Raph Horsey, nine. Sir Hugh Portman, ten. whop, why howe nowe Master K. Shiriffes man? Here is but ten.
1599 ‘T. Cutwode’ Caltha Poetarum clxxx. sig. E7 The winners must cry whup, The goale is got, and now the game is vp.
1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. H3 Whoope whether is my brother basket-maker gone.
1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) iii. sig. M5 Whup (Faustulus) all draw ny thee That doe love thee.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 94 Joceline tells, that St. Patrick did..fast..a whole Lent together... Whoop! but St. Aidan, (as Capgrave tells us,) fasted full fifty days.
1773 Genuine Acct. Life, Robberies, Trial & Execution William Cox 12 Being discovered by a little errand boy belonging to the shop, Cox instantly cried whoop.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 249 Yet whoop, Jack! kiss Gillian the quicker.
1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lv. 546 ‘Halloa! whoop! Halloa! Hi!’ Away, at a gallop.
1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance iv Whoop for Freedom and Adventure!
1908 L. Doyle Ballygullion 25 ‘What would ye think av Brian O'Connor's daughter?’ sez he, wi' a narvous kind av a titther. ‘Whoop,’ sez I to meself, ‘the widow's done.’
1955 Daily News (N.Y.) 28 Apr. 43/1 Whoop, whoop, hurray. The city this week celebrated its 100,000th dollar in fines levied against litterbugs.
2013 Heat 12 Jan. 43/2 He's single. Whoop!
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. X2 v So would hee haue writte Harueys whoope diddle, or the non-suting, or vncasing of the animaduertiser.
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Andria iii. i, in Terence in Eng. 48 Whup, hoida: what, in all hast?
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear iv. 219 Whoop Iug I loue thee. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches iiii. sig. G2 Whoope, whurre, heres a sturre.
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 78* in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) The Ballad of whoope Barnabee.
2. Representing sounds other than human cries and exclamations.Less common than sense 1.
a. Representing the calls of any of various animals and birds, esp. some species of owl, gibbon, monkey, swan, or crane. Frequently reduplicated.
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1833 D. Scott Jrnl. 9 May in W. B. Scott Mem. D. Scott (1850) 126 Whoop goes the owl—still an owl wherever I go.
1877 R. A. Sterndale Seonee iv. 140 ‘Whoop! whoop! whoop!’ rang through the jungle, with a great commotion in the branches of a large tree full of grey monkeys.
1888 Frank Leslie's Christmas Bk. 1888–1889 263/1 ‘Whoop!’ cried the old owl.., peering out of his retreat.
1984 P. Townsend White Spirit, fly Free 73 He [sc. a whooper swan] suddenly lifted his head slightly and cried: ‘Whoop, whoop!’
2011 M. J. Tyler & F. Knight Field Guide to Frogs of Austral. (rev. ed.) 96 [Weigel's spadefoot toad.] Advertisement call: ‘whoop..whoop..whoop..whoop..’.
b. Representing the sound of a siren, steam whistle, etc. Also occasionally representing the sound of a missile travelling through the air, a muffled explosion, etc. Typically reduplicated.
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1854 Wheeling (W. Va.) Daily Intelligencer 20 Nov. Boom went the cannon again—whoop! whoop! whoop! whoo-o-o-op! went the steam whistle.
1887 Palo Alto Reporter (Emmetsburg, Iowa) 16 Sept. Dat was..when de big shells come whoop—whoop!—screech—screech!—whish, whish, whish—sh—sh!
1943 P. L. Travers Mary Poppins opens Door i. 13 Then—whoop! went the stick [sc. of a rocket firework] as it shot away.
1952 A. Scholes Fourteen Men xi. 103 The silence was broken by a blast from the ship's siren. ‘Whoop, whoooop, whoooooop!’
2007 I. Irvine Runcible Jones & Buried City (2019) ix. 67 An alarm went whoop, whoop, whoop.
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