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词组 whoop-de-do
释义 whoop-de-do
adjective
  1. in horse racing, employing the strategy of riding all-out from the start of the race US
    • Longden, for example, is famed as a “whoop-te-do” rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. — Time, p. 82, 17 May 1948
    • The number of riders in America who will give a horse of any age a chance to settle into stride is pitifully few, the great majority being strictly “whoop-de-do” booters, who might have been developed by the late Bill Daly. — Daily Racing Form, p. 4, 27 November 1959
  2. celebratory, uproarious US, 1932
    Variants include “whoop-de-doodle” and “whoopidy-do”.
    • [S]he gets all whoopidy-do like we’ve just given her the vote or something. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 117, 2001
  3. a loud and rowdy event or gathering US, 1929
    • FIGS: Quiet tonight, huh? FREDDY: At that bachelor party. Across the river. FIGS: Yeah. Whoop-de-do. — Copland, 1997
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