whooping : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane
  pertussis.
  

WordNet

• (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison.

Webster 1913

• noun rare North American crane having black-and-white plumage and a trumpeting call
  Grus americana; whooper.
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters. The species was reduced by hunting to several dozen in the 1960's and the numbers have been slowly rising since.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan.

Webster 1913