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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 |
| Michelyne | | - | English (Rare) |
| Elspeth | | ELS-peth | Scottish |
| Raghu | | - | Hinduism, Indian, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam |
| Sibylla | | zi-BUY-lah (German) | Greek, German, Swedish, Late Roman, Late Greek |
| Maxine | | mak-SEEN | English |
| Jaylin | | JAY-lin | African American (Modern), English (Modern) |