Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whoop or yell of a particular intonation, raised as a signal for attack, and to strike terror into the enemy: used generally with reference to the American Indians.
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Examples
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A candidate falls after an errant war-whoop; another teeters over his pastor's statements.
Charles Redfern: Reaching The Lofty Heights This New Year. Maybe. Possibly. Charles Redfern 2012
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A candidate falls after an errant war-whoop; another teeters over his pastor's statements.
Charles Redfern: Reaching The Lofty Heights This New Year. Maybe. Possibly. Charles Redfern 2012
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A candidate falls after an errant war-whoop; another teeters over his pastor's statements.
Charles Redfern: Reaching The Lofty Heights This New Year. Maybe. Possibly. Charles Redfern 2012
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A candidate falls after an errant war-whoop; another teeters over his pastor's statements.
Charles Redfern: Reaching The Lofty Heights This New Year. Maybe. Possibly. Charles Redfern 2012
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So when I'd drawn back her chair, and she had made for the lobby without a glance at me, I navigated carefully in her wake, turned in the door-way, surveyed the glittering splendour of the dining-room and its chattering gluttons, drew a deep breath and let out a Lakota war-whoop at the top of my voice.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Vale barely restrained herself from letting fly an exuberant war-whoop.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Vale barely restrained herself from letting fly an exuberant war-whoop.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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Vale barely restrained herself from letting fly an exuberant war-whoop.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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What's being overlooked is that the guy in the red shirt is apparently doing the "indian war-whoop".
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The silence of the forest was so solemn, that, remembering the last of the Mohicans, we should not have been the least surprised if an Indian war-whoop had burst upon our startled ears.
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