英语词汇“whoop”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINwhoop

Origin:

1300-1400 Old French houpper, from the sound.

VERB TABLE

whoop

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	whoop
	he, she, it	whoops
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	whooped
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have whooped
	he, she, it	has whooped
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had whooped
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will whoop
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have whooped

Continuous Form
Present	I	am whooping
	he, she, it	is whooping
	you, we, they	are whooping
Past	I, he, she, it	was whooping
	you, we, they	were whooping
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been whooping
	he, she, it	has been whooping
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been whooping
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be whooping
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been whooping

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A fire truck or an ambulance whoops somewhere beyond the window, adding cruelly to my unease.
The bikes closed in, whooping.
The fat girl whooped, covered her hand with her mouth, and shrugged.
The two of them whooped, thumped their glasses on the table and rumbled their feet underneath.
To kill time, fans tried to get a wave started, throwing up their arms and whooping.
Young Donald McCulloch whooped and two of the McLaggan girls whooped with him.

Longman Language Activatorto enjoy doing something► enjoy

to get pleasure from doing something: · Did you enjoy the party?enjoy doing something: · My father always enjoyed playing golf at weekends.enjoy yourself (=do things that make you feel happy): · The park was full of people enjoying themselves in the sunshine.thoroughly/greatly enjoy: · Thanks for a lovely evening. I thoroughly enjoyed it.· Most of the students said that they had really enjoyed the day out.enjoy every minute/moment of something: · It was a wonderful vacation - we enjoyed every minute of it.enjoy something immensely especially British: · Parts of the play were extremely funny. I enjoyed it immensely.

► like

to enjoy doing something, especially something that you do regularly or for a long time: · I don't like meetings, especially if they go on for too long.like doing something: · We liked living abroad. It was a wonderful experience.like to do something (=do something often or regularly because you enjoy it): · Nick likes to relax and read a book in the evenings.

► love

especially spoken to enjoy doing something very much and get a lot of pleasure out of it: · Cassie works in the theatre, and she really loves it.love doing something: · Ben loves swimming, playing tennis, those kinds of thing.love to do something (=do something often or regularly because you enjoy it a lot): · She loved to sit in the park and feed the ducks.

► have a good/great/wonderful etc time

especially spoken to enjoy yourself very much when you are with other people: · We had a great time last night - you should have come.· Did you have a good time at the beach?have a good/great etc time doing something: · The kids all had a wonderful time meeting up at each other's houses.

► live it up/whoop it up

informal to enjoy yourself very much by going out a lot and spending a lot of money on social activities: · Pat spent most of his time at college going to parties and living it up.· I had saved about two thousand dollars, so I decided to whoop it up in Vegas before going home.

► have fun

to enjoy yourself with other people, for example by relaxing, talking, or laughing with them: · I was having so much fun I forgot how late it was.have fun doing something: · We had fun trying to guess who Mike's new girlfriend was.

► have a blast/have a ball

especially American, informal to have a very good time: · We went down to the Gulf Coast of Florida for spring break - we had a blast!

► have the time of your life/have a whale of a time

informal to enjoy yourself very much: · "Your vacation sounds fantastic.'' "We had the time of our lives!''have the time of your life/have a whale of a time doing something: · Alan was having the time of his life, playing to an admiring audience.· The kids all had a whale of a time, in and out of the pool all day.

► get a kick out of doing something

to enjoy doing or seeing something: · I get a real kick out of watching my son learning to speak.· Jody got a kick out of trying some of the new video games.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► whoop it up

Drunken fans whooped it up in the streets.