piss
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
idioms
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piss off,
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to anger.
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to go away; leave (often used imperatively).
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take a piss, to urinate.
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piss away, to squander; fritter away.
verb
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(intr) to urinate
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(tr) to discharge as or in one's urine
to piss blood
noun
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an act of urinating
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urine
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beer
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drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities
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something easily obtained of achieved
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to tease or make fun of someone or something
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to be far superior to
a version that pisses all over the original
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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pisssimple
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pissessimple
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have pissedperfect
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has pissedperfect
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am pissingprogressive
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are pissingprogressive
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is pissingprogressive
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have been pissingperfect progressive
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has been pissingperfect progressive
Past
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pissedsimple
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had pissedperfect
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was pissingprogressive
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were pissingprogressive
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had been pissingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of piss
1250–1300; Middle English pissen < Old French pissier < Vulgar Latin *pisiāre (imitative)
Example Sentences
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See Examples For:
So, it’s an ask to be like, “Hey, can you come take the piss out of this concept that you’re then probably gonna spend eight months of the year trying to actually achieve?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
"I don't know if it's celebrating those nights or taking the piss," laughs Maddell.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
"I am not thin-skinned. I actually love being taken the piss out of when it’s clever and in good spirits," she said.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025
It’s too weird, and too wretched, to not take the piss out of it.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2024
“I should tell you that while you were dreaming, a boy shot piss out of a water gun on my hair.”
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
Roy Cohn said, “Donald Trump pisses ice water.”
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2024
Andrei: I’m telling you, you just start going nuts here, like everything pisses you off.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
"He pisses off others with his antics, but he's a blunt object that Donald Trump wants, apparently," a source told Rolling Stone.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2023
A lot of them are funny and weird critiques of whoever crosses my radar or pisses me off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
“What? You know what it is? Why Valentine’s Day pisses her off?”
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
“I’ve never seen the Saudis so pissed off. Period,” said Mohammed Al-Basha, a U.S.-based expert who is founder of the Basha Report, a U.S. risk advisory focused on the Middle East and Africa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
And now I don’t want to, because if I like it, I’m really gonna be pissed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
“People are pretty pissed about the idea of revisiting the idea of redistricting,” Davids told Salon.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2025
We found her at her lowest, "crying at the gym" and "pissed off" at wasting her youth on a six-year relationship with British actor Joe Alwyn, that ultimately fizzled out.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
And I was pissed then, because I should have been enjoying it.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
Natural disasters in the Gulf present another such opportunity, but he will probably just continue pissing into the wind.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
What once was a battle to clinch the crown of who dominates male rap has now turned into a glorified pissing contestant to see which rapper can out-worse each other.
From Salon ● May 10, 2024
“We just lose the teetotaler vote with ours, whereas they’re pissing off half the country,” Gallagher said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
I’ve been a fan of Kang’s writings on Asian Americans over the years because truthful discussions, especially about race, usually require pissing some people off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2021
He does it for the pure-driven pleasure of pissing me off.
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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