Usually means: Respiratory infection causing severe coughing.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word whooping cough:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. whooping cough: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. whooping cough: Merriam-Webster
  3. whooping cough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. whooping cough: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. whooping cough: Collins English Dictionary
  6. whooping cough: Vocabulary.com
  7. whooping-cough, whooping cough: Wordnik
  8. whooping cough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. whooping-cough, whooping cough: Wiktionary
  10. whooping cough: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whooping cough: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whooping cough: Dictionary.com
  13. Whooping Cough, Whooping-cough, Whooping cough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. whooping cough: Rhymezone
  15. whooping cough: FreeDictionary.org
  16. whooping cough: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. whooping cough: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whooping-cough, whooping cough: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. whooping cough: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Whooping cough: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Whooping cough (pertussis): Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  11. whooping cough: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  12. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  13. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  14. Whooping-cough, whooping cough: Medical dictionary
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Whooping cough: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Whooping Cough: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See whooping_coughs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (whooping cough)

noun:  (pathology) A contagious disease of the respiratory system that usually affects children caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, the advanced stage of which is characterised by spasms of coughing followed by a whooping sound during the intake of breath.

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