piss

piss¹ [pıs] v [i]spoken not polite

[Date: 1200-1300; : Old French; Origin: pissier, from Vulgar Latin pissiare]

1.) to ↑urinate

2.) piss in the wind

to waste time or effort trying to do something that is impossible

3.) it is pissing down (with rain)

BrE used to say that it is raining very heavily

4.) piss yourself (laughing)

BrE to laugh a lot, especially when you cannot stop laughing

▪ They were all copying my accent and pissing themselves laughing.

5.) piss all over sb

BrE to thoroughly defeat a person or a team

6.) not have a pot to piss in

to be extremely poor

7.) go piss up a rope!

AmE used to tell someone to go away

piss about/around phr v

1.) to waste time doing stupid things with no purpose or plan

= ↑mess about/around

▪ Stop pissing about and get some work done!

2.) piss sb about/around

to treat someone badly by not doing what you have promised to do, or by not being honest with them

= ↑mess somebody about/around

▪ I wish he'd say yes or no - he's been pissing me around for weeks.

piss away [piss sth<=>away] phr v

to waste something in a very stupid way

▪ I was earning quite a lot but I pissed it all away.

piss off phr v

1.) piss sb<=>off

to annoy someone very much

▪ The way she treats me really pisses me off.

2.) BrE to go away - used especially to tell someone to go away

▪ Now piss off and leave me alone!

▪ He pissed off before we got there.

3.) BrE used to say no or to refuse to do something

piss ²

piss² n spoken not polite

1.) [singular]

an act of urinating

go for/have/take a piss

▪ I need to have a piss.

2.) [U] ↑urine

3.) take the piss (out of sb/sth)

BrE to annoy someone by laughing at them or making them seem stupid

→↑piss-take

▪ The kids always take the piss out of some teachers.

4.) be on the piss

BrE to be at a ↑pub or club, drinking a lot of alcohol

▪ 'Where's Jo?' 'Out on the piss somewhere.'

5.) be full of piss and vinegar

AmE to be full of energy

→be a piece of piss at ↑piece¹ (15)