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woohoo

/wuːˈhuː/

woohoo interjection: used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.

Interjection

  1. Used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.
    • Woohoo! It’s summer again!
    • She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.[1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe...

Verb capitalized: WooHoo

WooHoo (third-person singular simple present WooHoos, present participle WooHooing, simple past and past participle WooHooed)

  1. (euphemistic, intransitive, transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse, especially as referenced in The Sims video game series.
    • At some point I discovered real romance novels, the ones with all the euphemisms and graphic bits rather than WooHooing and ambiguously ruffling sheets, and moved on from the lurid stories of my sim families. My love for the series lives on though my interest in making my sims get it on has waned....2016 April 8, Melissa Brinks, “Makin’ WooHoo: The Sims and My Sexual Awakening”, in Women Write About Comics
    • Ok, I have two female sims who are roommates and I made them WooHoo because why not. […] So then I assumed since my sim was already pregnant WooHoo'ing again would be fine, but then after this my second sim has started throwing up.2017 April 25, “TWO PREGNANT LESBIAN”, in The Sims 4 General Discussion

Noun capitalized: WooHoo

WooHoo (plural WooHoos)

  1. (euphemistic) The game mechanic above, often accompanied by suggestive animations but without explicit depiction.
    • […] while I may no longer be interested, The Sims is still likely introducing legions of curious teens and pre-teens safely to the strangeness of the ambiguous WooHoo.2016 April 8, Melissa Brinks, “Makin’ WooHoo: The Sims and My Sexual Awakening”, in Women Write About Comics
    • The Sims 4 has had 1.8 Billion Woohoos2023 April 28, “Some stats from the Sims 4 - How many times have your sims woohooed?”, in Reddit: Sims4

Synonyms of woohoo

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Forms of woohoo

Interjection
alternative formwhoo-hoo
alternative formwhoo hoo
alternative formwoo hoo
alternative formwoo-hoo
Verb
third-person singular presentWooHoos
present participleWooHooing
past participleWooHooed
pastWooHooed
alternative formwoohoo
alternative formWoohoo
Noun
pluralWooHoos

Origin of woohoo

From the interjection woohoo.

Words that rhyme with woohoo

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Questions about woohoo

What does woohoo mean?
Woohoo means used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.
What part of speech is woohoo?
Woohoo can be an interjection, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce woohoo?
Woohoo is pronounced /wuːˈhuː/.

Words near woohoo in the dictionary

  1. woofter
  2. woofters
  3. woofy
  4. wooh
  5. woohay
  6. woohoo
  7. wooing
  8. wooingly
  9. wooings
  10. wooish
  11. wook

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: woohoo (page history and authors); WooHoo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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