to need to pee
- phrasal verb
- /nid tə pi/
- Informal
- I need to pee.
- I really need to pee
- I need to pee again
- I just need to pee
I'm starting to need to pee really bad.
- I'm starting to need to pee really bad.
- No, you took the exit because you need to pee.
- Holy hell this was a long night and I need to pee right now.
- Like a normal person would say, guys, I need to pee.
- What do you say I don't need to pee?
- Because like you're in, sometimes I need to pee so bad.
Examples
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Do you need to pee?
Fiction book (2002) -
I really need to pee.
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I really, really need to pee.
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Look, I need to pee.
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"I need to pee," she said.
Fiction book (1995) -
If you need to pee, go.
Blog text (21) -
I think this is the time I needed to pee most badly, like ever.
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Aw, man, I need to pee.
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I really need to pee, do they have toilets there?
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When you feel uncomfortable during a long movie, it might be because you need to pee.
Synonyms
To let out the body's yellow liquid
To pass urine
To pee in a rude way
To need to pee very badly, often after drinking a lot
To pass urine from the body, often said to children
To let urine come out of your body
Antonyms
How Urgent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to feel the urge to urinate' is directly and compositionally derived from 'need' (to require) + 'to' (infinitival marker) + 'pee' (urinate). Even if the supplied entry lists 'pee' as a noun, the infinitival structure makes the verbal sense transparent and this literal composition is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would understand it.
Etymology
Need to pee is very literal: the word need shows a strong feeling and pee is the action, so picture your lower belly filling and pressing until you must find a toilet. That's why it means 'to need to go to the toilet'.