Definition of "whoop"

[A] great whoop of victory sounded as finally they carried the fish up the beach.

1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 30

The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]

2006, Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know, page 104

The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.

2009, Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages, page 184

each whooping with a merry shout

1815, William Wordsworth, Beggars

When naught was heard but now and then the howl / Of some vile cur, or whooping of the owl.

1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals

I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients

And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be / Whooped out of Rome.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene v]