to pass gas
5
5.9
- phrasal verb
- /pæs ɡæs/
- NSFW
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tirar gas
- Sit around and pass gas and make your friends laugh?
- pass gas one more time
Alas, you can tell I passed gas because my bathwater just started bubbling.
- Alas, you can tell I passed gas because my bathwater just started bubbling.
- Well, farting, I mean, as I'm quite sure that you know is when we break wind or pass gas, we are expelling gas.
- He could pass gas on anyone he wants, but he chooses, he chooses to pass gas on you.
- But I think what he had meant to do was pass gas do fart.
- My sister's kind of special though, because my sister common, I mean, Paul George Pass gas, she'll call it perfume.
- Throwing up, passing gas, a night spent in a bathroom after some bad fish, or just you being you.
- It's not like it's hitting my bank account, who I'm dating, if I have a kid, if I pass gas the other day.
Examples
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You just passed gas at me, man, and that's uncool.
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So I discreetly tried to pass gas as one does.
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One thing I absolutely never do is pass gas or do number two in front of him.
Blog text (28) -
Are you passing gas or something?
Fiction book (2001) -
You know, people passing gas is one of those things that just gets people to laugh.
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I spoke to several teachers, and all you hear in class are kids passing gas!
Blog text (26) -
But he wouldn't take me because I passed gas while he was eating lunch.
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And you should remember to never pass gas in many Japanese bathhouses.
Blog text (34) -
One time, my mom argued with a nurse for 15 minutes when the nurse told her she had to pass gas (she had work on her intestine).
Blog text (24) -
If you feel uncomfortable, it might help to pass gas privately to relieve pressure.
Synonyms
96
5.3
To push gas out through the bottom, often with a sound
3
6.8
To let gas out of your bottom
1
6.5
To let gas from inside your body out through your bottom
1
6.9
The act of letting gas out from the bottom, often with a sound
1
8.1
To let air out from your bottom so it makes a sound
1
9.8
To let out a small puff of gas from the bottom in a playful way
To let gas leave the stomach by burping or passing wind
Antonyms
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'pass' (to expel) with 'gas' (intestinal air): a learner who knows both words would infer 'to expel gas from the body' = fart. Although slightly euphemistic, the composition follows a transparent verb + noun pattern found cross-linguistically, so comprehension does not require prior idiomatic knowledge.
Etymology
The phrase pass gas comes from the simple image of gas moving out of the body. Here pass means 'to move out' and gas is the air inside you, so the phrase became a polite way to say 'to fart'.