whoopee

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  1. interjection Used to express jubilance.
  2. idiom make whoopee Slang To engage in a noisy, boisterous celebration.
  3. idiom make whoopee Slang To make love.

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  • His leather pants make a whoopee-cushion sound on the stage floor. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • It's funny for the moment, but kind of like a whoopee cushion, I think the humor would ware off pretty quickly after you got home. —  Idaho Falls Today! Local Information.
  • "No, I do not believe that that sends a signal that, whoopee, we should have more newspaper broadcast cross-ownership .." —  Multichannel News: Breaking News
  • It was the day you watched your seat for a whoopee cushion. —  The Daily Evergreen News Feed
  • Two sets of couples show up at a cottage with plans to make whoopee, each couple thinking no one else is around. —  Simi Valley Acorn
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