Whop vs Whoop - What's the difference?
whop | whoop |
(informal) To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact.
A blow or strike.
An exclamation, a cry, usually of joy.
A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.
A bump on a racetrack.
* 2006 , Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know (page 104)
* 2009 , Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages (page 184)
A bird, the hoopoe.
To make a whoop.
* (William Wordsworth)
* W. Browne
To shout, to yell.
* , chapter=7
, title= To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.
(obsolete) To insult with shouts; to chase with derision.
* (William Shakespeare)
In transitive informal terms the difference between whop and whoop
is that whop is to throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact while whoop is to defeat thoroughly.whop
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Verb
(whopp)- He angrily whopped the book onto the table.
Derived terms
* whopperNoun
(whops)References
* (etymology) English terms with homophoneswhoop
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) whopen, whowpen, howpen, , see (l).Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad
- The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.
Verb
(en verb)- each whooping with a merry shout
- When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.