woop
n.— «A “woop” is the term for cadets at West Point, because they wear capes like the flying monkeys in “The Wizard of Oz,” who made the sound “Woop.”» —“Mids are not crazy, it’s just their lingo” by Earl Kelly in U.S. Naval Academy The Capital (Annapolis, Md.) May 22, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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