to pinch a loaf
- idiom
- Offensive
- I'm gonna go pinch a loaf.
Examples
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I think I gotta pinch a loaf.
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I really need to pinch a loaf before the meeting starts.
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I got to go pinch a loaf.
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I've gotta pinch a loaf.
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You're out here destroying your Jeep with the fucking boulder and I'm inside pinching a loaf!
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Excuse me, I have to pinch a loaf quickly.
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When nature calls, sometimes you just have to pinch a loaf.
Synonyms
To pass solid waste from your body
To go to the toilet to poo
To poop solid waste out of the body
To pass poo out of the body through the opening at the bottom
To poop, said as a rude word
To go to the toilet to poop in informal speech
To pass solid waste from your body
To go to the toilet to poop in a rude way
To poop and get rid of solid waste from your body
Surface Forms
Morphology
pinch + a + loaf
The slang meaning 'to defecate' cannot be predicted from the literal constituents: 'pinch' (to squeeze), 'a' (article) and 'loaf' (a shaped bread) give no transparent clue to bowel movement. This is a euphemistic, culture-specific metaphorical idiom that requires prior exposure rather than compositional inference, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would not reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pinch a loaf: The slang phrase pinch a loaf comes from a simple, literal image: pinch means to squeeze and loaf likens the shape of poop to a small loaf of bread. So the phrase came to mean 'to poop'.