Crossword clues for whooping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whooping \Whoop"ing\, a. & n. from Whoop, v. t.
Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough,
returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting
of several expirations, followed by a sonorous
inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough.
--Dunglison.
Whooping crane (Zo["o]l.), a North American crane ( Crus Americana) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters.
Whooping swan (Zo["o]l.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan.
Whoop \Whoop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Whooping.] [OE. houpen. See Hoop, v. i.]
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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.
Each whooping with a merry shout.
--Wordsworth.When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
--W. Browne. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of whupping English) vb. (present participle of whoop English)
Usage examples of "whooping".
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.
Baby Cheryl started to cry, a whooping, ugly yell broken by bursts of coughing.
She had wondered if someone in town might not have a gasoline generator with a freezer hooked up to it on an emergency circuit, and even thought of hunting up Harold Lauder to ask him, but then Gus began to breathe his final whooping, hopeless breaths.
Tom was on the lawn, whooping and knocking croquet balls through a set of wickets.
And reappeared in a double, whooping line, heeling their small, nimble-footed ponies down the rock-tumbled slope, passing close by Ryan and his friends, who leaped away from the flying hail of pebbles and whirling dust.
Ryan held the G-12 against his hip, his finger on the trigger, watching as the stocky horsemen came whooping up the slope, then becoming silent at a command from their leader.
Knife came out of the mouth of the trail onto the bottom of Many Deer Canyon like a gren out of a launcher, whooping and firing his old Remington pistol in the morning air.
Lots of running around the palace and the grounds whooping, talks with the legionaries Caesar used to police those grounds, stories of mighty battles in Gaul of the Long-hairs, and a side to Caesar he had not suspected.
When it settled she began to glide-run towards it, whooping exuberantly, arms windmilling for balance.
Mansing watched the girls whooping encouragement to Yuri as the lad ploughed through the water towards them.
He caught her after six metres, and the two of them fell into the small clear ripples whooping and laughing.
Had the whooping cough at the same time that Joe and Tom Snyder had hit.
Before she can ask, the man steps back to make way for a procession that suddenly divides the crowd: a naked woman, skin painted silver, face masked with a featureless white disc, goes by on a white horse, followed by a gaggle of white-robed acolytes whooping and beating on little drums and tambourines and sticks.
Brittany stares at her for a moment, and then the youngest of the ultra-rads charges at her, whooping and flailing his arms, and she squeals and runs from him with a knock-kneed gait, floundering up the powdery white slope of a dune with the boy scampering alongside.
I was doing it, rolling crookedly toward her ap-plause, whooping and laughing and traveling mac closed my eyes, amazed and horrified at my own momentum.