shoop

See also: Shoop

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho͞op, IPA^(key): /ʃuːp/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -uːp

Etymology 1

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Interjection

shoop

(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, Shoop
  I 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).

Etymology 2

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

shoop (plural sheep)

(slang, chiefly humorous) A sheep; specifically singular form of sheep.
- 2001 January 13: “A Magee”, alt.fan.british-accent (Google group): Better Living Through Spam
  > http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0091807549/o/qid=979300168/sr=8-1/026-8769325-3040456
  I thought you were a goat not a shoop.
- 2001 March 28: “Rick Lalonde”, alt.security.alarms (Google group): Baaah Humbug
  The 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 January 15: “R H Draney”, alt.usage.english (Google group): Agendae
  > Now, look here. If you’re going to introduce multiple sheep into this thread, the least you could do is call them sheepae.
  > (Pronounced “sheep-eye”?)
  “Sheep” *is* plural… the singular is “shoop” (analogy “feet/foot”, “teeth/tooth”)…
- 2002 November 6: “Jared of Europa”, rec.games.computer.ultima.online (Google group): Tailors ahoy!
  >>> Is there any tailor here who still collects own cloth by sheerinh sheeps or such?
  That’s clearly wrong… like geese is the plural of goose, sheep must be the plural of shoop. No?
- 2009 August 21: “TimC”, alt.sysadmin.recovery (Google group): inept customer service
  If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.

Etymology 3

Alteration of shop.

Noun

shoop (plural shoops)

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

Anagrams

Hoops, hoops, hospo, poohs, posho