Whoop-de-doo

Quick meaning: Whoop-de-doo is an interjection meaning Exclamation indicating (now often sarcastic) excitement or enthusiasm.

Meaning

Exclamation indicating (now often sarcastic) excitement or enthusiasm.

More Meanings

1. Causing or marked by excitement, enthusiasm, or showiness.
2. A commotion or frenzy of activity or excitement.
3. An event marked by such commotion, activity, or excitement.
4. (horse racing, uncountable) A style of racing in which the jockey establishes an early lead and then runs as fast as possible.
5. (motorcycle racing or car racing) A bump in the track that causes a vehicle to become briefly airborne.

Example Sentences

Lots of meetings, lots of whoop-de-doo. exponential growth assured.

It was a big whoop-de-doo. Hanes Auditorium was packed to the gills.

We had to see what the whoop-dee-doo was all about, these crowds of Catholics trekking here for hundreds of years.

And, without any dramatic whoop-de-doo at the close of this song, he merely restates his simple, sentimental first phrase.

Related Words

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