Used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.
Woohoo! It’s summer again!
She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.[1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 181:
Games, GamingEuphemistic To engage in sexual intercourse, especially as referenced in The Sims video game series.
At some point I discovered real romance novels, the ones with all the euphemisms and graphic bits rather than WooHooing and ambiguously ruffling sheets, and moved on from the lurid stories of my sim families. My love for the series lives on though my interest in making my sims get it on has waned. Later installments have introduced public WooHooing, time travel sex, and the ability to seduce the Grim Reaper, […]2016 April 8, Melissa Brinks, “Makin’ WooHoo: The Sims and My Sexual Awakening”, in Women Write About Comics:
Ok, I have two female sims who are roommates and I made them WooHoo because why not. […] So then I assumed since my sim was already pregnant WooHoo'ing again would be fine, but then after this my second sim has started throwing up.2017 April 25, “TWO PREGNANT LESBIAN”, in The Sims 4 General Discussion:
WooHoo
noun
Etymology From the interjection woohoo.
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Games, GamingEuphemistic The game mechanic above, often accompanied by suggestive animations but without explicit depiction.
[…] while I may no longer be interested, The Sims is still likely introducing legions of curious teens and pre-teens safely to the strangeness of the ambiguous WooHoo.2016 April 8, Melissa Brinks, “Makin’ WooHoo: The Sims and My Sexual Awakening”, in Women Write About Comics:
The Sims 4 has had 1.8 Billion Woohoos2023 April 28, “Some stats from the Sims 4 - How many times have your sims woohooed?”, in Reddit: Sims4: