WAR WHOOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does war whoop mean? 

• WAR WHOOP (noun)
  The noun WAR WHOOP has 1 sense:

1. a yell intended to rally a group of soldiers in battle

  Familiarity information: WAR WHOOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAR WHOOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A yell intended to rally a group of soldiers in battle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

battle cry; rallying cry; war cry; war whoop

Hypernyms ("war whoop" is a kind of...):

call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)

 Context examples 

He might just as well have turned a somersault and uttered an Indian war whoop, for his face was so full of suppressed excitement and his voice so treacherously joyful that everyone jumped up, though he only said, in a queer, breathless voice, Here's another Christmas present for the March family.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)