• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sho͞op, IPA^(key): /ʃuːp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ʃup/

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• Rhymes: -uːp

From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (“rosehip”), Old English hēope (“hip, rosehip”). Doublet of hip.

• shoup, choop

shoop (plural shoops)

1. (Northern England) The fruit of the rose; rosehip.

A meaningless syllable.

shoop

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.

   Coordinate terms: doo, la, tra-la-la

   • 1963 (date written), Rudy Clark, “It’s in His Kiss ”, in It’s in His Kiss (Capitol; 4984) (single), performed by Merry Clayton, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.: Capitol Records, published 10 June 1963:

     If you want to know / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / If he loves you so / (Shoop, shoop, shoop, shoop) / It's in his kiss.

   • 1982 June 21 (date released), Steven Nicholas Jolley, Tony Swain, “Shy Boy”, in Deep Sea Skiving, performed by Bananarama, London: London Recordings, →OCLC:

     But don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / And don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / Don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh) / And don't it make you feel good (Shoop shoop aaahh)

   • 1993 September 21 (date released), Sandra Denton, Cheryl James, “Shoop”, in Very Necessary (Next Plateau/London; 422 828 392-2), performed by Salt-N-Pepa, New York, N.Y.: Next Plateau Entertainment/London Records, →OCLC:

     I like what ya do when you do what ya do / You make me wanna shoop / Shoop shoop ba-doop / Shoop ba-doop

   • 1995 October 3 (date recorded), Babyface , “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”, in Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album, performed by Whitney Houston, New York, N.Y.: Arista Records, published 6 November 1995, →OCLC:

     But there comes a point when / When we exhale (yeah, yeah, say) / Shoop, shoop, shoop / Shoo be doop shoop shoop (yeah)

A deliberate back-formation from sheep on the pattern of nouns which underwent Germanic i-mutation, such as feet from foot, geese from goose, and teeth from tooth; compare the similarly humorously formed meese from moose.

shoop (plural sheep)

2. (slang, chiefly humorous) Used as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep.
   • 2001 January 13, A Magee, “Better Living Through Spam”, in alt.fan.british-accent‎ (Usenet):

     I thought you were a goats not a shoop.

   • 2001 March 29, Rick Lalonde, “Thanks Paul Rumpleforeskin :-)”, in alt.security.alarms‎ (Usenet):

     The sheep in Belgium have no hoof and mouth disease because they all wear oversized rubber boots. 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.

   • nept customer service”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery‎ (Usenet):

     If the plural of moose is meese the singular of sheep must be shoop.]

Alteration of shop, a clipping of photoshop (“digitally altered image”).

shoop (plural shoops)

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

• Shoop (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Hoops, hoops, hospo, poohs, posho