whooped

verb

past tense of whoop
as in shouted

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whooped
  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
  • The kid was encouraged to dominate 5U beginner soccer kids by a father who yelled to keep the ball.
    — Joe Kinsey OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Five officers approached the parked car with guns drawn, before the car reversed away and crashed into a nearby parked car, as officers yelled for the driver to stop.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 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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  • After Golden State won the first game, Atlanta roared back with double-digit blowout wins to take a 2-1 lead.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Tyson Kozak, Noah Ostlund and Jack Quinn also scored and Colten Ellis made 28 saves for the Sabres, who roared back from an early two-goal deficit and then hung on to improve to 2-0-1 on their four-game trip.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of roared
Verb
  • 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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