whoop
n. countablen. a loud cry of joy or excitement. You might hear this when someone wins a game or hears great news.
n. a loud, enthusiastic cry or shout expressing excitement, joy, or triumph. Often used to describe a sudden, sharp vocalisation.
A loud whoop went up from the crowd when the goal was scored.
The children let out a collective whoop of delight when they saw the ice cream truck turn the corner.
The silence of the forest was suddenly broken by a triumphant whoop from the hikers who had finally reached the summit after hours of climbing.
From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic wōp, from Proto-Germanic wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).
From a traditional African American and Southern US pronunciation of whip.
Often paired with the preposition 'of' to describe the emotion, such as a 'whoop of joy' or 'whoop of delight'.