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单词 Woop Woop
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Definition of Woop Woop in English:

Woop Woop

(NZ wop wops, woop woops)
nounˈwʊp wʊp
Australian informal
  • A humorous name for a remote outback town or district.

    〈澳/新西兰,非正式〉伍普伍普(偏僻的内地城镇或地区的谑称)

    it was like council night in Woop Woop
    while you're out in the woop-woops, spare a thought for the local farmer
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her father Daddy O runs Woop Woop as a despot, with the usual modicum of attendant corruption.
    • The people at Woop Woop could, if they wanted, toss out the same old jammy, boring swill.
    • I've usually managed to get to a real F & P engineer if I moan enough and say that the appliance is way out in the wop wops.
    • We are in a teeny tiny village outside Kettering (in the wop wops as the other half says).
    • There is apparently a shortage of coffee in Woop Woop but plenty of booze, blue eye shadow and bullets to go around.
    Synonyms
    countryside, green belt, great outdoors

Origin

1920s: a jocular use of reduplication, a characteristic of Aboriginal languages.

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