whoop

whoop is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The hoopoe. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The hoopoe.
2. intransitive verb. To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl.
3. intransitive verb. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
4. transitive verb. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
5. noun. A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl.
6. noun. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
7. noun. a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
8. verb. cough spasmodically

   "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"

   Synonyms: hack

9. verb. shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm

   "The children whooped when they were led to the picnic table"

Synonyms

hack

Common word forms

whoops, whooped, whooper, whooping

Words from these letters

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