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whoop
verb
to beat, to thrash US, 1976- “Now get up, or do I have to whoop you where you lie?” — John Ridley, Stray Dogs, p. 117, 1997
▶ whoop it up
to make a great deal of rowdy noise US, 1884- A city the size of New York, with probably 20,000,000 persons within a thirty-mile radius, and untold millions more swarming in for short periods of whooping it up, today supports only one big Broadway casino[.] — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 292, 1956
- A lot of old me, a la Tom Waits, were grabbing the girls and whooping it up. — Sandra Bernhard, Confessions of a Pretty Lady, p. 73, 1988
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