whoop it up

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Verb

whoop it up (third-person singular simple present whoops it up, present participle whooping it up, simple past and past participle whooped it up)

  1. (idiomatic) To have a great time; to party or revel whole-heartedly or noisily.
    They all went out to whoop it up on his 21st birthday.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 270:
      "Toward the end of the meal I shall disappear for a bit. You keep the party going, to cover up. Play rowdy records at them, or something. And everybody help to whoop it up."

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