Saying "To make" to refer to going to the bathroom?

[DeusxMac]

<<< Is this an Ashkenazi Jewish thing that filtered down from Yiddish?>>>
I think so.

First heard it, and only heard it, from people with roots in the East Coast Jewish community (New York, New Jersey).

[special]

I’m going to make coffee now.

[NewtonMP2100]

……so if someone asks you…..you want to make whoopi……they are asking if you wanna……

[anonymouse1]

While I never thought about it before, I clearly associate this with Ashkenazi Jews, of which there were many in the circles I moved in as a kid and adolescent, and of course, my family was Ashkenazii.. I don’t recall hearing it anywhere else.

[SrBigStuff]

I’m going to make coffee now.

Haha! Me, too. And I often make coffee so I can make other things.

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Yes, I used to hear that as a little kid.

[GGD]

I recall it from my childhood. NYC 1960’s.

[Acer]

Hit the head, take a leak, drain the main vein, but never "make"

[gabester]

As at least one other here has already mentioned, I've heard someone say "I've got to make water" and I have to wonder if this phrasing is related to the original query like it evolved from or was abbreviated in "to make". 

I suppose if I'm frank it's almost always been "go make water" ...

[DewGuy]

……so if someone asks you…..you want to make whoopi……they are asking if you wanna……

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I don't recall ever hearing it here in Michigan.

[rz]

Only time I've heard it used was on Big Bang Theory one time when Sheldon said he had to "make peepee".