making whoopee
Getting physically intimate
Making whoopee is a dated, playful euphemism for having sex: They spent the honeymoon making whoopee.
The phrase gained currency from a 1928 song and retains a coy, old-fashioned charm.
It can also mean celebrating boisterously, though the sexual sense dominates.
- lovemakingSexual intercourse between partners
- canoodlingAmorous physical affection
- intercourseCommunication or sexual connection
- hanky-pankyDeceptive or amorous mischief
- bumping ugliesCrude intercourse slang
romance · love · courtship · copulation · horizontal tango · fooling around · mating · dalliance · passion · kissing · getting it on · seduction · merrymaking · birds and bees · intimacy · bonking · amour · frolic
making whoopeeabstaining
Voluntarily doing without
celibacy · abstinence · refraining · chastity · holding out
making whoopeefighting
Engaging in physical conflict
arguing · estrangement · divorce · separation · emotional distance
making whoopeesleeping
Unconscious rest state
doing nothing · sitting around · going through the motions · boredom
make, makes, maker, makers, making, remake, remade, remaking, unmade