Bible Dictionaries
Whoop

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(v. t.) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.

(4):

(n.) The hoopoe.

(5):

(v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

(6):

(v. i.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Whoop'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​w/whoop.html. 1828.