Talk:whoop whoop

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Rfv-sense: The outback; the middle of nowhere.

Appears to be an error for Woop Woop.
(OTOH, an onomatopoeic sense looks citeable.) — Pingkudimmi 13:18, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Would the onomatopoeic sense be distinct from whoop? Mglovesfun (talk) 13:26, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Seems widespread. Searching for '"middle of whoop whoop" -facebook', brings up 60,000 hits on the web, roughly half of the number of hits that "woop woop" gets.--Dmol (talk) 13:35, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
RFV-failed as there are no citations in the entry. - -sche (discuss) 04:46, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
According to this source, "whoop whoop" is "the sound of the police in my hood". bd2412 T 13:32, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Audio isn't much help with spelling, though. DCDuring TALK 13:40, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]