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whoop

noun as in hurrah

verb as in shout hurrah

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Would she weep with grief, or whoop with joy?

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“I hear voices shouting, a sharp crack of the whip, horses neighing in protest, the clatter of hooves, the skid of carriage wheels, the Incorrigibles calling, ‘Lumawoo’—whoops!”

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They have undergone or are currently involved in successful reintroductions to the wild: Karner blue butterfly, red wolf, black-footed ferret, whooping crane, golden-lion tamarin.

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All the songs are hugely popular anthems of Ukrainian independence so the audience on premiere night whooped along, swept to their feet at times.

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Todd whooped and hollered, in no small part because he had bet a Dodgers employee that his buddy would go deep.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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