Making Whoopee

[Anne Gilbert]

Fred:

>The OED, in its entry for "whoopee," includes "to
make whoopee."  The
>meaning "to behave amorously" is treated as a less-
frequent sense of the
>latter.  I had always thought "to behave amorously"
was the most common
>meaning of "to make whoopee"; am I wrong on this?
>
Maybe that's because "to make whoopee" in the sense of
to "behave amorously" is kind of an "obsolete"
expression.  But I'm just guessing here.
Anne Gilbert