whoop-de-doo

whoop-de-doo
 n.— «Another rider racing down the straight called the “L.I.E.” (after the Long Island Expressway) fails to negotiate the washboard bumps, or “whoop-do-dos,” as he should have and very nearly falls.» —“A Boom Grows in the Dust” by John Thomas Wark New York Times May 15, 1977. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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