Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To urinate.
- intransitive verb To urinate on or in.
- intransitive verb To discharge (blood, for example) in the urine.
- noun Urine.
- noun The act or an instance of urinating.
- idiom (take the piss out of) To tease or mock (someone).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To discharge the fluid secreted by the kidneys and detained in the urinary bladder; urinate.
- To eject as urine.
- noun Urine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To discharge urine, to urinate; -- usually considered vulgar.
- noun vulgar Urine.
- noun [vulgar] urinate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun vulgar
Urine . - noun vulgar, slang Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
- verb intransitive, vulgar To urinate.
- verb transitive, vulgar To discharge as or with the urine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun liquid excretory product
- noun informal terms for urination
- verb eliminate urine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Something seemed wrong about saying the word piss in a chapel.
Last Christmas Kate Brian 2008
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Something seemed wrong about saying the word piss in a chapel.
Last Christmas Kate Brian 2008
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Taking the piss is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
Think Progress » Sen. Bennett: ‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Nothing Whatever To Do With Clean Air’ 2010
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But it does seem that gopher piss is a hallucinogenic.
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As a consequence my piss is almost orange in colour at the end of most shifts at the moment!
Police Body Armour Heatwave Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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On the matter of what you call the piss poor education system the real problems are the segregation into public and private, the remaining selection within the public sector, including outright selective schools, faith schools, single sex schools and other disruptions.
Iain Dale: Boris Johnson Bottles First Mayoral Race Row 2008
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To glorify the thrashing, blood, death process is truely in piss poor taste and I will not buy anything packaged with that type of graphic print/picture.
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I think that Pezcore was great because Pezcore was based in piss and vinegar, and the confusion of all those things, you know?
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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I think that Pezcore was great because Pezcore was based in piss and vinegar, and the confusion of all those things, you know?
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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To glorify the thrashing, blood, death process is truely in piss poor taste and I will not buy anything packaged with that type of graphic print/picture.
johnmperry commented on the word piss
cf micturition
July 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word piss
"He will piss when he can't whistle: he will be hanged. He shall not piss my money against the wall: he shall not have my money to spend in liquor.
He who once a good name gets,
May piss-a-bed, and say he sweats.
"- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.
September 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word piss
"The police have evidence that (the Exford is) responsible for producing a lot of consumption on the streets in the CBD late at night. It was a beacon for people wanting to get pissed in the streets all night long."
- unnamed source, quoted in Jill Stark & Melissa Fyfe, Blitz on all-night bottle shops in bid to curb alcohol-fuelled violence, theage.com.au, 18 Oct 2009.
October 18, 2009