Definition of "hooping-cough" [hooping-cough]

• See whooping-cough. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They tipped him when he went to school; when he had the hooping-cough, a confidential young clerk went round by way of Grey"
• "Some of them I found had hooping-cough, which is one of the few epidemics that range through this country."
• "European dress — various forms of indigestion and ophthalmia; hooping-cough comes frequently; and every year the period preceding the rains is marked by some sort of epidemic."