| 单词 | whoop |
| 释义 | whoop I. intransitive verb 1. < made a man want to cry and whoop all at the same time — Laura Krey > 2. 3. 4. < was whooping for leftist candidates > 5. a. < a noisy gang, squashed into five cars and a taxi, were whooping through the quieter squares — Dorothy Sayers > < the Western express … whoops out through the suburbs — Lawrence Constable > b. < the bill whooped through both houses > c. < a stiff west wind was whooping in off the prairies — F.B.Gipson > transitive verb 1. a. < whooped us in to wash for lunch — William DuBois > < machine men crowded on his bandwagon, whooped him into office — William Manchester > < whooped a welcome > b. < it whooped through on a voice vote a stopgap foreign aid appropriation bill — Current Biography > 2. a. < the literary reviews for five or six years past have been whooping up all sorts of palpable quacks — H.L.Mencken > b. < whoops up a selling boom — Wallace Stegner > 3. < the tip whooped the price up to 80 times the prewar quotation — Sylvia F. Porter > < so if I was fool enough to never whoop the ante I'd get the credit for lying anyway — Sinclair Lewis > • - whoop it up II. 1. a. < goes out on the town with a whoop and a holler — John McCarten > — often used interjectionally b. < with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks — Washington Irving > c. 2. 3. 4. 5. < didn't give a whoop > < not worth a whoop > III. |
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