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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“He wanted to put his leg up and piss on it.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
“We need another good political blog. I’d say to use his previously existing fame, but he’s probably going to piss off a lot of his old readers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2025
"It's such a gross way to completely alienate someone when you're taking the piss out of their voice, which is so personal to you and you use it all the time," she says.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
It’s too weird, and too wretched, to not take the piss out of it.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2024
The smell in the room was foul, a miasma of mold and piss and nightsoil, of smoke and sickness.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
There’s almost no better feeling than being as free and gay and loud and funny as you want knowing that it just pisses off some nobody who sits at home far, far away.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
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
The floor creaks under him and when he pisses for ages into the chamber pot we have to stuff our mouths with coats to stop the laughing and Mam hisses at us to be quiet.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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
“He’s as tough as nails and he is more pissed off than anything that he was the only one that stood up to Magneto. He’s disappointed,” says Dodd.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
She will absolutely be pissed about people bringing up her name in the same sentence as Jeffrey Epstein until the end of time.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 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
She’s kind of pissed at this magic trick, how she’s gone from unseen to seen in her father’s eyes, but it’s also kind of nice, too.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
“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
“Of all the people you don’t want to start a pissing contest with ” “Well, it’s been started,” I said.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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