{Whooping cough} (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.
{Whooping crane} (Zo["o]l.), a North American crane ({Crus
Americana}) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it
utters.
Each whooping with a merry shout. --Wordsworth.
When naught was heard but now and then the howl Of
some vile cur, or whooping of the owl. --W. Browne.
2. To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in
whooping cough.