Shoop

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: shoÍžop, IPA: /ʃuːp/

Full definition of shoop

Interjection

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
• 1963, Rudy Clark, The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)If you want to know
  (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop)
  If he loves you so
  (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop)
  It's in his kiss.
• 1993, Salt-N-Pepa, ShoopI like what ya do when you do what ya do
  You make me wanna shoop
  Shoop shoop ba-doop
  Shoop ba-doop.
• 1995, Whitney Houston, Exhale (Shoop Shoop)But there comes a point when
  When we exhale (yeah, yeah, say)
  Shoop, shoop, shoop
  Shoo be doop shoop shoop (yeah).

Conscious back-formation from sheep on the pattern of Germanic strong declension nouns such as goose → geese, tooth → teeth, foot → feet, and the similarly jocularly-formed moose → meese.

Noun

1. (chiefly humorous) A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep.
• 2001: “A Magee”, alt.fan.british-accent (Google group): Better Living Through Spam, the 13^th day of January at 9:54am>

• 2001: “Rick Lalonde”, alt.security.alarms (Google group): Baaah Humbug, the 28^th day of March at 7:29pmThe process is quite simple: with the sheep firmly planted in the boots, the shepherd — let’s call him Rumplestiltskin for arguement’s sake — sneaks up behind the sheep (or the singular shoop) and inserts his feet in the boots behind the shoop.
• 2002: “R H Draney”, alt.usage.english (Google group): Agendae, the 15^th day of January at 7:37am> Now, look here. If you’re going to introduce multiple sheep into this thread, the least you could do is call them sheepae.
  

• 2002: “Jared of Europa”, rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Google group): Tailors ahoy!, the 6^th day of November at 6:50pm>>> Is there any tailor here who still collects own cloth by sheerinh sheeps or such?
  

• 2009: “TimC”, alt.sysadmin.recovery (Google group): inept customer service, the 21^st day of August at 12:33pmIf the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.

Alteration of shop.

Noun

1. (Internet slang) An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar to produce a misleading impression; an instance of petty, amateur fauxtography.

Interjection

1. (Internet slang) exclaim

Anagrams

• hoops
• posho