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whoop

/wuːp/ noun C1
  1. A loud, eager cry, usually of joy.
  2. A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
  3. A bump on a racetrack. · .

Plural whoops

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His escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the thinnest topmost branches crackle and bend under them, and then with a cough and a whoop would fling themselves into the air outward and downward, and bring up, hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree.
The Jungle Book, p. 38 · B2

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