whoop-dee-doo

noun

Commotion

Meanings

interjection
  1. alternativeAlternative 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
nounwhoop-dee-doo (plural whoop-dee-doos)

plural whoop-dee-doos

  1. Alternative spelling of whoop-de-doo.
    1. Commotion
    2. 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. 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
adjectivewhoop-dee-doo (comparative more whoop-dee-doo, superlative most whoop-dee-doo)

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

  1. alternativeAlternative 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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