Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The hoopoe.
- 2intransitive 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.
- 3intransitive verb
To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
- 4transitive verb
To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
- 7noun
a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
- 8verb
cough spasmodically
"The patient with emphysema is hacking all day"
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- 9verb
shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm
"The children whooped when they were led to the picnic table"
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