0 present participle of whoop
1 to give a loud, excited shout, especially to show your enjoyment of or agreement with something:
Whooping cough notifications continue to fall : young unimmunised infants remain at highest risk.
Other disabling diseases, such as whooping cough, have been reduced in prevalence and severity.
Instead of his being encased in a cage with his tormentors whooping around, the entire stage is turned into a dusky prison.
Particular attention was paid to typhoid fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, diphtheria and croup, influenza, pulmonary tuberculosis, cancer and other malignancies, and puerperal septicaemia.
Initially this was due largely to a fall in deaths from infective, parasitic and respiratory diseases, in particular, diphtheria, whooping cough, meningitis, poliomyelitis, measles, pneumonia and bronchitis.
He claimed that the mermaids and men-fish were known for their loud whooping noises, as if they had the power to raise the storms with which they were associated.
The latest available figures on notifications of whooping cough are shown in the table.
Whooping cough immunisation can lead in a small number of cases to severe brain damage.
