noun
piss
pihs
noun
1
Vulgar slang for urine.
"The alley smelled of stale piss."
verb
1
Vulgar slang meaning to urinate.
"He stopped to piss behind the bushes."
2
Informal: to rain very heavily.
"It's been pissing down all afternoon."
How to Use Piss
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishCrude slang for urine/urinating, or (informally) to rain hard.
When to use it
Considered vulgar; avoid in formal or polite writing.
Common pairings
piss down
take the piss
Word Forms
pissed past tense, pisses plural, pisses singular
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Etymology
From Middle English pisse/pissen, from Old French pissier, likely of imitative origin — it replaced the Old English word micge.