whoop

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A loud cry of exultation or excitement.
• noun A shout uttered by a hunter or warrior.
• noun A hooting cry, as of a bird.
• noun The paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
• intransitive verb To utter a loud shout or cry. synonym: yell.
• intransitive verb To utter a hooting cry.
• intransitive verb To make the paroxysmal gasp characteristic of whooping cough.
• intransitive verb To utter with a whoop.
• intransitive verb To chase, call, urge on, or drive with a whoop.
• idiom (whoop it up) To have a jolly, noisy celebration.
• idiom (whoop it up) To express or arouse enthusiasm; cheer.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Ho! hallo!
• To shout with a loud voice; cry out loudly, as in excitement, or in calling to some one; halloo; shout; also, to hoot, as an owl.
• In medicine, to make a sonorous inspiration, as that following the paroxysm of coughing in whooping-cough.
• To hoot at; insult or deride with shouts or hooting; drive or follow with shouts or outcry.
• To call or signal to by a shout or whoop.
• noun A whooping or hooting cry, like that of the crane; a loud call or shout; a cry designed to attract the attention of a person at a distance, or to express excitement, encouragement, enthusiasm, vengeance, or terror.
• noun In medicine, the peculiar sonorous inspiration following the attack of coughing in whoopingcough.
• noun Same as hoop for hoopoe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Zoöl.) The hoopoe.
• transitive verb To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
• intransitive verb To utter a whoop, or loud cry, as eagerness, enthusiasm, or enjoyment; to cry out; to shout; to halloo; to utter a war whoop; to hoot, as an owl.
• intransitive verb To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
• noun A shout of pursuit or of war; a very of eagerness, enthusiasm, enjoyment, vengeance, terror, or the like; an halloo; a hoot, or cry, as of an owl.
• noun A loud, shrill, prolonged sound or sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
• noun A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
• noun A bump on a racetrack.
• verb intransitive To make a whoop.
• verb transitive, informal To beat, to strike.
• verb transitive, informal To defeat thoroughly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb cough spasmodically
• noun a loud hooting cry of exultation or excitement
• verb shout, as if with joy or enthusiasm