whoop, houpen

i. . [Properly hoop, the w being excrescent, as in whole (q. v.); Fr. houper = to call, shout; cf. Goth. hwopjan to boast.] A. In trans.: To shout or cry out with a loud, clear voice; to call out loudly, as in excitement; to halloo. "Swarming and whooping, and shouting out snatches of the songs." -London Daily Telegraph. *B. Trans .: To insult with shouts; to drive with shouts. "Suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be Whoop'd out of Rome." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iv. 5.