piss
Americannoun
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pisses
plural
verb (used without object)
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pisses,
present (3rd person singular)
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pissed,
past participle, past
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pissing
present participle
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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"I remember going to school in the 90s and people would take the piss out of anyone whose voice wasn't exactly the same as everyone else's."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
I don’t want to check, but I’m sure everyone’s favorite betting apps will offer odds on this event, though even Polymarket and Kalshi may know better than to piss off the president.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I used to say Militarie Gun was a hardcore band just to piss people off,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
"I'm going into school and I'm smelling like dog piss and cat piss," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
Rather than retaliate by wrecking Gibbs, Gragson said, “I want to beat him straight up. It pisses him off a lot more.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Kent later posted a photo of the couple kissing captioned, “Y'all we didn't break up. I'm petty — so when he pisses me off his photos go to the archive ... then I re-add them.”
From Fox News ● Jul. 27, 2020
The cooling-water evaporates, we hastily pass round the case, every man pisses in it, and thus we again have water, and are able to continue firing.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
When Mr. Vance now writes, “To the people who are pissed off and want to say, ‘I told you so’: you’re right, you did tell us so,” he’s thinking of himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
More formally known as judicial dissolution, the corporate death penalty basically happens when the government is so pissed off by the corruption or damage a corporation causes that it yanks away their charter.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
“Ned, you had better be as pissed as I am,” Reynolds said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
You observed on Wednesday that a lot of the justices sounded pissed.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2026
I even pissed on the run, dribbling on my duct-taped boot.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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
“Eleven years ago, I was pissing the bed,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 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
Like Paul says, “If you’re not pissing somebody off, you probably don’t have any character.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2022
You got to learn to blow them off without pissing them off, and Tariq had the magic touch.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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