whoop: difference between revisions

Template:ME. whopen, from Template:OF. hopper, houpper, originally onomatopoeic.

• enPR: wo͞op, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/wuːp/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., Template:SAMPA or enPR: ho͞op, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/huːp/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., Template:SAMPA

  Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "uːp" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.

• hoop (for one pronunciation of the noun and the associated intransitive verb)

whoop (plural whoops)

1. An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
2. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
3. (prison) A sound made by one inmate to warn other inmates that a guard is approaching the area.

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. Template:intransitive To make a whoop.
2. (prison) To warn a fellow inmate of an approaching guard.

• whoop it up

Corruption of whip.

• enPR: wo͝op, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/wʊp/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., Template:SAMPA

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "transitive" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. To beat, to strike.
2. (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "transitive" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. To defeat thoroughly.

• whoop someone's ass

• whoopee
• whoops