war whoop

English

Noun

war whoop (plural war whoops)

  1. In war, a yell to fight.
    • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 20:
      Once the faint noise of a distant Navajo war whoop came drifting back through the scented darkness.
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