Usually means: Shout loudly in excitement, joy.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. whoop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whoop: Merriam-Webster
  3. whoop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whoop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whoop: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whoop: Vocabulary.com
  7. Whoop, whoop: Wordnik
  8. whoop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whoop: Wiktionary
  10. whoop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. whoop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. whoop: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. whoop: Dictionary.com
  14. whoop (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. whoop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Whoop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Whoop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. whoop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. whoop: Rhymezone
  20. whoop: FreeDictionary.org
  21. whoop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. whoop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Whoop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  24. whoop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whoop: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whoop (Bump Like This), whoop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. whoop: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. whoop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whoop: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whoop, whoop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. whoop: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
noun:  A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
noun:  A bump on a racetrack.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a whoop.
verb:  (transitive) To shout, to yell.
verb:  To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To beat, to strike.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To defeat thoroughly.

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