whoopee cushion

noun

: a cushion that makes a sound like the breaking of wind when sat upon

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Two films into his solo directing career, Cregger has established himself as an artist who uses convention as a whoopee cushion. Andy Crump, Time, 9 Aug. 2025 Take a whoopee cushion and put it just about anywhere your family is about to sit down and wait to hear the fart noise. Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025 Time will tell if Radziwill ever tricked Truman Capote into sitting on a whoopee cushion. Vulture, 27 Jan. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for whoopee cushion

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of whoopee cushion was in 1953

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“Whoopee cushion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whoopee%20cushion. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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