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whoop-dee-doo en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.
    • In 1903, it was Whoop-Dee-Doo. But in 1904, despite the crowds, the Weber and Fields balloon burst. 2000, Lee Allyn Davis, Scandals and Follies, page 66:

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whoop-dee-doo en · INTJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.
    • We already know what comes next. Four years of college, and then another graduation. But whoop-dee-doo! 2012, Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl 8: Nothing Can Keep Us Together, →ISBN, page 82:

whoop-dee-doo en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo. ▸ Commotion
  2. Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo. ▸ Event marked by excitement
    • Now, more than 300 years later, Walt Disney lias spun the idea into a whoop-dee-doo of comic characters, a spatterdash of Technicolor and a u-dee-dah of nostalgic melodies. 1953, Collier's - Volume 132, page 59:
  3. Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo. ▸ Bump in a racetrack
    • You won't hit more than three whoop-dee-doo ridges with the front wheel first without doing an endo, so that plan-ahead action is something you adapt to rather suddenly. 1998 May, “Triumph”, in Walneck's Classic Cycle Trader, page 118:

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whoop-dee-doos Number=Plur lexicographic