whooping

Verb (1)

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (intransitive) To make a whoop.
   • each whooping with a merry shout1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars
2. (transitive) To shout, to yell.
   • I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
3. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
   • And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb (2)

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

1. (informal, transitive) To beat, to strike.
2. (informal, transitive) To defeat thoroughly.

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Noun

whupping (plural whuppings)

1. (colloquial) A beating.
   • What you gonna do ... give me a whupping? You can't whup me no more. You're too old.1986, August Wilson, Fences
2. (colloquial) A brutal defeat.
   • We laid a whupping on that team.