0 past simple and past participle of whoop
1 to give a loud, excited shout, especially to show your enjoyment of or agreement with something:
He has whooped in 1925, and on both occasions he was an aider and a better of sedition.
That particular announcement may well have been "whooped up" politically greater than its real content.
He whooped, he swore in 1912.
Local authorities and those applying to them were literally whooped on by ministerial clamour and were told that there would be no limit on the amount that could be spent.