whooped

verb

past tense of whoop
as in shouted

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  1. shouted
  2. yelled
  3. hollered
  4. roared
  5. cried
  6. crowed
  7. shrieked
  8. thundered
Verb
  • The accuser recalled banging on the locked toilet door to escape and says a man outside may have shouted to ask if everything was okay.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Children shouted, amped up on sugar and adrenaline, while orange leaves crunched under their feet.
    — Isa Mudannayake, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of shouted
Verb
  • Moshier remembers when the team stopped at a fast-food restaurant on a road trip and Murphy yelled for everyone to get back to the bus.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Hill yelled at Vikings linebacker Eric Wilson after Wilson was accidentally knocked into him during Minnesota's game against Miami.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of yelled
Verb
  • Families climbed to their rooftops and hollered for rescuers.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • As players and coaches hooted and hollered for Richman’s win, Mills socked a cheering Richman with a right hook to his facemask.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of hollered
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  • More than 17,000 Atlanta fans roared the Dream to a thumping 26-point victory and a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals series against the Golden State Valkyries.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Then came Tuesday's blowout SpaceX earnings, and growth roared back.
    — Todd Gordon, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of roared
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  • By Monday, the girl who cried all those tears on her guitar will be both the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall, and youngest-member of the Nashville edition.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Several jurors cried after viewing autopsy photos of Hedgepeth, according to local media accounts.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of cried
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  • Palm fronds littered the ground and roosters crowed, their calls breaking the quiet.
    — Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher Jennifer Kelleher, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Those cops, police chief John Noland crowed, have been electrocuting suspects for roughly two years at this point.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of crowed
Verb
  • Fans shrieked and hollered as every player in the realmwide war — Queen Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy), Prince Daemon (Matt Smith), the Sea Snake (Steve Toussaint) and his nemesis Lohar (Abigail Thorn) — popped up.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • As the noise-rap-electro act Jane Remover shrieked and pleaded through a 90-minute marathon set at the Fonda on Thursday night, one very young couple dressed right out of a conservative‘s nightmare — gender-ambiguous, purple hair, facial piercings — tapped me on the shoulder.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
Definition of shrieked
Verb
  • SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the sky over South Texas early Monday.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The stadium thundered on beneath the lights while, inside booths and trucks, the people responsible for sending it all across the nation were abruptly working half-blind, half-connected and entirely on instinct.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of thundered
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