to take a piss
52
9.9
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
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- I gotta take a piss.
- gotta take a piss
- go take a piss
- need to take a piss
Yeah, so stay dehydrated because you can't take a piss, right?
- Yeah, so stay dehydrated because you can't take a piss, right?
- Now obviously some dude who works there stood there and took a piss.
- But Speaking of, where is an appropriate place to take a piss?
- Now in the van, we get to the the where the plane is parked and I tell him I've got to take a piss.
- So go, what's going on my mate saying Oh yeah, the chauffeur's gone for a piss and I go, you fucking taking a piss, get the fuck out of there, get out of the car.
Examples
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I have to get up three times a night to take a piss.
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But I gotta take a piss like you would not believe, Mr. Johansen!
Fiction book (1999) -
It's not funny, I need to take a piss.
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"you know where I could take a piss?"
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I got to take a piss.
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- I gotta take a piss.
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I said, do you know where I can take a piss?
Fiction book (1999) -
Always try to take a piss before I go out.
Fiction book (2000) -
Look, I'm just looking for a place to take a piss.
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I really need to take a piss before we get back on the road.
Synonyms
371
2.6
To let out the body's yellow liquid
278
1.0
To use the toilet in a polite or indirect way
77
1.1
To go to the toilet to pee or poo
69
3.3
To pass urine
41
9.3
To pee or pass urine from your body
11
7.5
To pee or poo, usually in a toilet
5
9.5
To pee when you need the toilet
4
9.7
To pee when you need to go to the toilet
2
8.1
To pass urine from the body, often said to children
1
1.9
To go to a room with a toilet to pee or poo
1
9.1
To pass urine from the body
1
8.0
To go to the toilet to pee or poo
To let urine come out of your body
To let out urine from the body
An act of peeing to empty your bladder
Antonyms
How Polite
- US
77
1.1
- US
278
1.0
- UK
1
8.0
- Baby Talk
2
3.0
- Offensive
52
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
take + a + piss
The meaning 'to urinate' is directly derivable from the noun 'piss' (informal for urination) combined with the common English pattern 'take a X' meaning 'have/perform X', so a learner who knows the constituents can infer the meaning. The expression is vulgar in register but compositional rather than idiomatic, so transparency is high.
Etymology
Take a piss is a rude way to say someone will go and pee; the verb take is like 'take a break' and the blunt word piss means urine, so the phrase came to mean 'to pee'.