whoop

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A loud cry of exultation or excitement.
2. n. A shout uttered by a hunter or warrior.
3. n. A hooting cry, as of a bird.
4. n. The paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
5. v. To utter a loud shout or cry. See Synonyms at shout.
6. v. To utter a hooting cry.
7. v. To make the paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
8. v. To utter with a whoop.
9. v. To chase, call, urge on, or drive with a whoop: whooping the cattle down the road.
10. idiom. whoop it up Slang To have a jolly, noisy celebration.
11. idiom. whoop it up Slang To express or arouse enthusiasm; cheer: conventioneers whooping it up for their candidate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To shout with a loud voice; cry out loudly, as in excitement, or in calling to some one; halloo; shout; also, to hoot, as an owl.
2. In medicine, to make a sonorous inspiration, as that following the paroxysm of coughing in whooping-cough.
3. To hoot at; insult or deride with shouts or hooting; drive or follow with shouts or outcry.
4. To call or signal to by a shout or whoop.
5. n. A whooping or hooting cry, like that of the crane; a loud call or shout; a cry designed to attract the attention of a person at a distance, or to express excitement, encouragement, enthusiasm, vengeance, or terror.
6. n. In medicine, the peculiar sonorous inspiration following the attack of coughing in whoopingcough.
7. Ho! hallo!
8. n. Same as hoop for hoopoe.

Wiktionary

1. n. An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
2. n. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
3. v. To make a whoop.
4. v. To beat, to strike.
5. v. To defeat thoroughly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The hoopoe.
2. v. 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. v. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
4. v. To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
5. n. 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. n. A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. cough spasmodically
2. n. a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
3. v. shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm