make whoopee

present singular third person makes whoopee · participle present making whoopee · participle past made whoopee · past made whoopee

1. slangTo enjoy oneself in a boisterous manner.

   Synonyms: whoopee, make out, have sex

2. slangTo engage in sexual intercourse.

   "Did you think that since we made whoopee and you said I was yours, I'd want to quit work and keep house for you?"

   2010, Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, Penguin, →ISBN, page 162

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   Guess who's making whoopee with your girlfriend. Those dreading words just drove me out of my mind. Guess who's making whoopee with your girlfriend. He's said what's mine is yours and yours is all mine.

   1971, “Mama's Pearl”, in Motown (unreleased version with alternate lyrics), performed by The Jackson 5

   Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology.

   1990, Leonard Maltin, Leonard Maltin's TV Movies and Video Guide, Penguin, →ISBN, page 55

   Some of the rich orange globes of life-yet-to-be always wash from the streambed gravel where they were deposited a few months earlier by salmon that had died, poignantly, mere hours after making whoopee.

   1995, Bradford Matsen, Planet Ocean: A Story of Life, the Sea and Dancing to the Fossil Record, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 1

   Sex and drugs are discussed openly (one newspaper recently examined puberty by showing photographs of the development of both male and female genitalia), and you might overhear a pub chat where Jan tells all details of making whoopee.

   2004, Andrew Bender, Amsterdam: City Guide, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 12

   Before you get all prickly on us, "just friends" doesn't necessarily mean you're making whoopee together–it simply implies that the friendship is a little, shall we say, complicated. Either a) you used to make whoopee, b) one of you would kinda maybe like to make whoopee, c) you both kind of know you'll eventually make whoopee, or d) you spend so much time together that you may as well be making whoopee–what the hell's stopping you, anyway?

   2006, Lorelei Sharkey, Emma Taylor, Em & Lo's Rec Sex: An A–Z Guide to Hooking Up, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 89

   Synonyms: make it