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Wren eating a hot dog, Wren drinking out of straws, and Wren sitting on a whoopee cushion in a dress, just to name a few.
—Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 23 Mar. 2024
Time will tell if Radziwill ever tricked Truman Capote into sitting on a whoopee cushion.
—Vulture, 27 Jan. 2024
Here — sneakily, playfully, like a kid planting a whoopee cushion on a humorless teacher’s chair — is where the boredom comes in.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2023
But when his comedy isn’t rooted in drama, Polanski becomes the directorial equivalent of someone trying to get laughs with a whoopee cushion.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
1953, in the meaning defined above
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“Whoopee cushion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whoopee%20cushion. Accessed 5 Dec. 2024.
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