单词 | whoop-up |
释义 | whoop-upn. 1. North American. A noisy or raucous celebration or party; exuberant merrymaking, revelry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > [noun] > noisy or riotous revela1375 riotc1440 revel-rout1587 wassail1603 randan1640 rant1650 high-go1774 splore?a1786 gilravagea1796 spree1804 lark1811 spray1813 shindy1821 randy1825 randy-dandy1835 batter1839 flare-up1844 barney1850 jamboree1868 tear1869 whoop-up1876 beano1888 razzle1892 razzle-dazzle1893 bash1901 1876 Redwood Gaz. (Redwood Falls, Minnesota) 4 May Arrangements are in progress..for the biggest kind of ‘whoop-ups’ the coming 4th of July. 1879 Memphis (Tennessee) Daily Appeal 6 Nov. His reception all along the line was a general ‘whoop up’, which will be a big card in coming political events. 1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers 319 As soon as the general ‘whoop-up’ began, all the traders..packed up their outfits snugly and retired. 1953 D. Cushman Stay away, Joe 22 Ain't you going to have no dance, no rodeo, whoop-up? 1976 D. Heffron Crusty Crossed xiv. 101 I thought it quite..sensible of Big Point to have one great annual public whoop-up in which to give a little exercise to the witch and devil of one's soul. 2004 Vancouver (Brit. Columbia) Province (Nexis) 17 Sept. a5 Her open-bar whoop-ups at Liberal conventions had become so popular she started booking entire nightclubs to stage them. ΚΠ 1879 Daily Cairo (Illinois) Bull. 28 June I hope the boys will keep the Tenth street hall open. Give 'em a ‘whoop-up’ for me. 1900 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 Mar. 10/2 Among all the thousands who cheered for the war there isn't one to give the plague a well-deserved whoop-up. 1927 Rotarian July 56/3 Somebody ought to drop in at the meeting of the Lath Benders' Union No. 55 and give them a whoop-up talk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1876 |
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