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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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
“He wanted to put his leg up and piss on it.”
From Salon ● May 26, 2025
"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 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
“We going outside to piss on fire hydrants?”
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
Maybe it also explains why some will declare they support free speech until you say something that pisses them off.
From Salon ● Jan. 16, 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 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
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
If Switzerland plays lousy, then I’m going to be pissed, but I think they’ll do better than in the first game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
“Ned, you had better be as pissed as I am,” Reynolds said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The city is pretty, pretty pissed off about what is happening, and people are out there doing their civic duty of being out there peacefully protesting.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
I always call him sir when he’s pissed off at me.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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
There is a real Ruth in my life and she definitely said, “The only thing easy in this life is pissing in the shower.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
If he’s not pissing somebody off, he’s doing something wrong.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2021
Once, I saw Cade pissing into the brush.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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