woops


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woops

 (wo͝ops, wo͞ops)
interj.
Variant of whoops.
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whoops


(hwo͝ops, hwo̅o̅ps, wo͝ops, wo̅o̅ps),
interj.
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This sequence kind of summed up yesterday's performance: good, good good -- woops. There was more good to come, though, when Laidlaw -- who scored with all his kicks including a cracker from the touchline to convert Maitland's try -- delayed a pass perfectly for Chris Harris to blur through the last of the French defence and touch down between the posts.
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THE North Wales Burlesque and Cabaret Festival returns to Llandudno at the end of January for its second year and organisers are keen to dispel the image of showgirls with large feathers in their hair parading around a stage to woops and screams from the audience.
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The fitness studio will open this December, joining the soon-to-be-opened Woops! Bakeshop and the existing HSBC Bank on the ground floor of 93 Worth Street.
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More shrieks and woops came for Jason Donovan as Parson Nathaniel, who struggled to cope with the deeper meaning of the invasion, but it was his on-stage wife, Les Miserables' Carrie Hope Fletcher, who really stole the show.