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.
See also: make, whoopee

make whoopee

Slang
1. To engage in a noisy, boisterous celebration.
2. To make love.
See also: make, whoopee

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.
See also: make, whoopee

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
BlankaBLAHN-kah (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Croatian), BLAWN-kaw (Hungarian)Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian
Misakimee-sah-keeJapanese
Augustinas-Lithuanian
VilhelmVEEL-helm (Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian
IngrÍ&Eth;R-Ancient Scandinavian
MauriMOW-reeFinnish