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Meanings of make whoopie in English

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.

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      Examples for "racket"
      Examples for "racket"
      1
      Martins said, 'The police have implicated Harry in a very serious racket.
      The Third Man
      2
      Still, this was about racket, not reality, and Dominique probably was right.
      Before you know kindness
      3
      To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket.
      War is a racket
      4
      Later she said of her racket abuse: I just threw my racket.
      The Guardian
      5
      What with all this racket, I can't really hear you too good.
      Black house
      1
      In this they pipe and revel; in this they sing and dance.
      Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation / With Modifications To ...
      2
      I am a man; I revel in trouble; you are a girl.
      The Blind Spot
      3
      And I rather revel in it-asI do in the east wind.
      The Spinners
      4
      The dance hall revel at the Elysian Fields was in full swing.
      The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
      5
      Nor does the revel end then; it is prolonged for eight days.
      The Story of Ida Pfeiffer / and Her Travels in Many Lands
      1
      Only the presence at table of their leaders kept the wassail down.
      Sir Mortimer: A Novel
      2
      Orgies and wild wassail hold a mocking sway in the courts of death.
      The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
      3
      With wine and wassail they nerved themselves for the desperate deed.
      The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present T...
      4
      Oh, to be young again an' not spill life in wassail!
      The Freebooters of the Wilderness
      5
      In 1599 Arthur Chichester brought this wassail bowl from his native Devon to Ulster.
      The Irish Times
      1
      To-night you may jollify; but after that you are under strict discipline, for a month at least.
      Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
      2
      Tain't natchul fer folks not to git together an' laugh an' be happy an' fergit dere quarrels an' dere troubles an' jollify deyselves.
      A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill
      3
      You cannot imagine how a little praise jollifies us poor authors to the marrow of our bones.
      Yesterdays with Authors
      1
      These men eat and make merry; let it be their funeral feast.
      Allan Quatermain
      2
      Nana was struck and did her best to make merry about it.
      Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
      3
      To make merry in camp is not all of a ranger's life.
      Sixes and Sevens
      4
      And Eumaeus answered: Eat, stranger, and make merry with what thou hast.
      The Story of the Odyssey
      5
      Eat, luckless stranger, and make merry with such fare as is here.
      The Odyssey of Homer
      1
      I play, to make happy the children, to get bread for me.
      Marie
      2
      But look at the good you can do-thepeople you can make happy.
      Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
      3
      May Venus make happy your next pursuit of a pretty slave.
      The Lion's Brood
      4
      What was wealth good for anyhow, save to make happy those we love?
      The Wolf's Long Howl
      5
      Photo: Supplied Which plants make happy bedfellows and which don't?
      Radio NZ
      1
      He has worked her to whoop it up for him down there.
      Stanford Stories: Tales of a Young University
      2
      Cent., as he had accumulated his full line, and was ready to whoop it up.
      The Tipster / 1901, From "Wall Street Stories"
      3
      They would fairly whoop it up.
      Peck's Compendium of Fun / Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, ...
      4
      It's a race, of course; but you're too much of a horseman to whoop it up this soon.
      Waifs and Strays / Part 1
      5
      Don't you ever whoop it up?'
      The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
      Usage of make whoopie in English
      1
      And if I make whoopie pies I won't be able to stand the temptation.
      Bake sale murder