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make whoopee
make whoopee
1. (old-fashioned, informal) to celebrate and enjoy yourself in a noisy way (usually in continuous tenses) It's hard working when everyone else is out there in the streets making whoopee.
2. (American old-fashioned, informal) to have sex (usually in continuous tenses) They spent most of the week in the hotel room making whoopee.
make whoopee
Slang 1. To engage in a noisy, boisterous celebration.
2. To make love.
make whoopee
Celebrate noisily; a genteelly humorous term for having intercourse. In either chase, “whoopee” is the sound of enjoyment. “Makin' Whoopee” is the title of a 1928 hit song by Eddie Cantor, a cautionary tale in which the man in question goes from courtship to marriage to fatherhood and other responsibilities and finally to divorce.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Blanka | | BLAHN-kah (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Croatian), BLAWN-kaw (Hungarian) | Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian |
Misaki | | mee-sah-kee | Japanese |
Augustinas | | - | Lithuanian |
Vilhelm | | VEEL-helm (Finnish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian |
IngrÍ&Eth;R | | - | Ancient Scandinavian |
Mauri | | MOW-ree | Finnish |