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whoopee
noun
▶ make whoopee- to have sex US, 1928
A forced and silly euphemism, but one sanctioned by television censors; it was used with annoying regularity by Bob Eubanks, host of The Newlywed Game television programme (ABC, 1966–90). - [H]er gaze holding on Bob Eubanks talking to a panel of newlywed wives, asking them what film star will their husbands say “you would most like to make whoopee with”[.] — Elmore Leonard, City Primeval, p. 172, 1980
- BRANDI: If you and I were making whoopie–BRODIE: What’s whoopie? BRANDI: You know, if we were, intimate. BRODIE: What, like fucking? — Mallrats, 1995
- to indulge in, and take pleasure in, boisterous or rowdy merry-making UK, 1933
- the fast-growing economic trade zones where they are making whoopee in an unabashed capitalist fashion — Suzy Gershman, Born to Shop Hong Kong, Shanghai & Beijing, p. 139, 2003
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