whoop
part of speech
verb (whoop, whoops, whooped, whooping); noun (a whoop, whoops); interjection (whoop)
meaning for a pupil
1) To shout loudly with joy or excitement. tree →
2) A loud shout of happiness. tree →
3) The noisy breath-in sound of whooping cough, an illness. tree →
4) (slang, US) To beat someone easily, as in «whoop them». tree →
sense in the lessons
In stories it shows people cheering, like «whooped with joy». In health lessons, whooping cough is a disease babies are vaccinated against. «Whoops» (with s) is a different little word said after a small mistake. Phrases: whoop with joy, whoop it up (party noisily).
examples
- The children whooped when the bell rang for the holidays. tree →
- We heard a whoop from the winning team. tree →
- She gave a whoop of delight. tree →
- Whooping cough makes a loud whoop sound. tree →
- The fans whooped and cheered. tree →
- We're going to whoop them in the final! tree →
- And they cocked their caps, and shouted, and whooped, and flew this way, and shot that way, and roved about the open country. tree →
note
The «wh» can be said «w» or «h»: «woop» or «hoop». «Whoops!» means oops and is a separate word. «Whoop-de-doo» is said sarcastically to mean «so what».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «whoop» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.