Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Whooping

Whooping , adjective and noun

a. & n. from Whoop, transitive verb
Collocations (3)
Whooping cough (Medicine) , 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 (Zoology) , a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for the loud, whooplike note which it utters.
Whooping swan (Zoology) , the whooper swan. See the Note under Swan.