Hooting cry of excitement

Usage examples of whoop.

From that apish, ferocious-looking giant he had expected a voice that was a whooping roar.

After an extensive tussle, punctuated by whoops, giggles and female screams, the predictable result was obtained with Avis straddling his face, Eris his hips.

As they pull into the driveway, the women whoop and wave like crazy people from their elevated deck seats, delirious as bleacher fans late in the second game of a long doubleheader.

What he hated was Raymo going faster than Ceese ever could, while waving his arms and squatting down and standing up and even raising one leg like a stork, all the while whooping and calling out to Ceese.

That was when Alvin became vaguely aware of the voices of Mike and Abe and Coz, somewhere in the distance, whooping and hollering like little boys.

Then at the right moment Cuth darted from his hiding place, whooping at the top of his voice and whirling his lasso.

The preteen Desdaine triplets, Withering, Scornful, and Derisive, whooped in delight.

The cabman suddenly whooped and doubled up, kicked under the diaphragm.

When the words finally came from Dunster they did so with a whoop of delight.

Cimber who told him of his victory, the spoils his legions had dragged across the Ganga River whooping in jubilation.

It was the disheveled and breathless Cimber who told him of his victory, the spoils his legions had dragged across the Ganga River whooping in jubilation.

Crowds of people, scarfed and booted, have gathered around, laughing and applauding and stamping their feet in the snow, whooping the prancing buffoon through his mocking routines -- now, hobbling and cackling wildly, he is chasing all the young girls in the audience, making them squeal and clutch tight their coats and skirts.

It howled and whooped and charged Avelyn, ready to throttle the monk with its bare hands.

And when he prints it, in England, France, Germany, and Italy, he italicizes it, puts some whooping exclamation-points after it, and sometimes explains it in a parenthesis.

Lord Redlady with a democratic heartiness which was so false that the workwoman Eleanor, silent all the evening, let out one wild caw of a laugh, like a kookaburra beginning to whoop in a tree.