whoop-de-doo

1. Exclamation indicating (now often sarcastic) excitement or enthusiasm.

   'Whoop-de-doo!', yelled a surprised Conrad as the large engine ignited in front of them. That's the biggest thrill of my life.'

   2001, David J. Shayler, Gemini

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   It felt like Daddy might come waltzing into the room any minute, look around at all the food and people, and say, "Whoop-de-doo! What a party!"

   2001, Pamela Walker, Pray Hard, →ISBN, page 29

comparative more whoop-de-doo · superlative most whoop-de-doo

1. Causing or marked by excitement, enthusiasm, or showiness.

   Piscops are appalled by whoop-dee-doo gospel selections like "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" and "Brighten the Corner Where You Are."

   1996, Florence King, The Florence King Reader

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   […] they presuppose not only disposable income but a commitment to affluence that insures the ultimate banality of the CD'S concrète-naif sound effects and whoop-de-doo chord changes.

   2000, Robert Christgau, Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s

plural whoop-de-doos

1. countableuncountableA commotion or frenzy of activity or excitement.

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

   2011, James Ellroy, Blood's A Rover, →ISBN, page 35

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

   1972, Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950

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

   2001, Dick Harte, Off Season

2. countableuncountableAn event marked by such commotion, activity, or excitement.

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

   2003, Goodbye, Little Rock and Roller, Marshall Chapman

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   They're going to have a fine time. Every ranch hand in the area, three hundred, four hundred, in for a whoop-de-doo.

   2012, William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Wyoming Slaughter: A Cotton Pickens Western, →ISBN, page 52

3. uncountablehobbiesA style of racing in which the jockey establishes an early lead and then runs as fast as possible.

   When Shoemaker wins or loses by a nose, it is an odds-on bet that a whoop-de-doo rider would have lost by lengths, having wasted the horse prematurely.

   1988, Tom Ainslie, Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing, →ISBN, page 203

4. countableuncountablemotorcycle racing or car racingA bump in the track that causes a vehicle to become briefly airborne.

   One of the most challenging are the whoop-de-doo bumps, also known as washboard roads.

   1993, Bob Italia, Motocross, →ISBN, page 25

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   So you can just power right along and kiss the top of every other whoop-de-doo with your front wheel and really make some time.

   1979 January, “Out There, a Honda 4-Stroke Looks Twice As Good”, in Cycle World Magazine, volume 18, number 11, page 112