Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
to piss like a racehorse

to piss like a racehorse

1 9.9
To need to pee very badly, often after drinking a lot
  • idiom
  • NSFW
: orinar como un caballo de carrera
  • But after all those scotches, I had to piss like a racehorse.
  • gotta piss like a racehorse

Examples

  • Close-up of Carl's face as he pisses like a racehorse.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • I gotta piss like a racehorse.

    13 Sins (2014)

  • Makes you piss like a racehorse.

    Rush (1991)

  • Piss like a racehorse every two hours.

    The Recruit (2003)

  • Sulitzer, I need a drink and I got to piss like a racehorse.

    The Secret Life of Words (2005)

  • I've been drinking vodka all night, and I have to piss like a racehorse!

    May (2003)

  • After drinking that large bottle of water, I really have to piss like a racehorse.

  • He exclaimed, 'I need to piss like a racehorse after finishing those cocktails!'

  • With all this beer, you're going to piss like a racehorse in no time!

Synonyms

to urinate
vsto piss like a racehorse
64 3.3

To pass urine

is a coarse, vulgar way to say the action rather than clinical language
to take a piss
vsto piss like a racehorse
  • Offensive
51 9.9

To pee in a rude way

focuses on intense urge and forceful passing rather than crude tone
to take a leak
vsto piss like a racehorse
  • NSFW
41 9.3

To pee or pass urine from your body

expresses a very strong urge or forceful passing rather than ordinary need
to need to pee
vsto piss like a racehorse
  • Informal
13 5.6

To feel you have to go to the toilet to pass urine

expresses a much stronger, more forceful need than a simple urge
to rush to the crapper
vsto piss like a racehorse
  • Offensive
9.9

To go quickly to the toilet because you have to pee or poo

focuses on intense urge and forceful passing rather than quick movement

Antonyms

to hold one's water
  • Informal
9.7

To keep from peeing for a while

How Urgent

to piss like a racehorse
  • NSFW
1 9.9
to need to pee
  • Informal
13 5.6

Surface Forms

piss like a racehorse infinitive
pissed like a racehorse past
pissed like a racehorse past participle
pissing like a racehorse present participle
pisses like a racehorse third person singular

Morphology

piss + like + a + racehorse

This is a straightforward simile: 'piss' = to urinate, and 'like a racehorse' specifies the manner, so a learner who knows the words can infer it means to need to urinate urgently or to urinate a lot/forcefully. The construction is compositional and follows a common cross-linguistic comparison pattern (though the phrase is vulgar in register), so it is readily understandable from its parts.

Etymology

Piss like a racehorse comes from a simple image: after a big drink or a hard run a racehorse often pees in a strong, fast stream, so the verb piss is used to picture that powerful flow. So, the phrase means 'to need to pee very badly' or 'to pee with great force'.