whoopee

• IPA^(key): /ʍupi/, /ʍʊpi/, /wʊpi/

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• Rhymes: -uːpi
• Rhymes: -ʊpi

whoopee

1. A spontaneous expression of delight or joy.

   Whoopee! I won!

whoopee (third-person singular simple present whoopees, present participle whoopeeing, simple past and past participle whoopeed)

1. To behave exuberantly; to make whoopee.
   • 1944, Pamel Hansford Johnson, The Trojan Brothers:

     "If the 'twenties," said the stage-hand, who was a politician, "had done a bit more thinking and a bit less whoopeeing, we mightn't be where we are today.