1
informal + impolite
: urine
2
informal + impolite
: an act of urinating
—often used with take
Examples of piss in a Sentence
Verb
I was so scared I almost pissed my pants.
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Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
The $28 billion American hemp industry employs 300,000 people, and plenty of them are pissed at the government crackdown.
—Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
When Nile gets home at five in the morning after not answering her texts or calls, Nina is understandably pissed.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Those things really piss me off.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
Snakes and spiders piss me off, just their existence.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
My characters are always in the service of pissing people off.
—Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
But new faces are going to show up in Edgewater this season — a revolving door of big, splashy, bold characters roll through, piss people off, disrupt our world.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
Which pisses me off, even through my white-hot shame.
—Allison Lax, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
Tracee Ellis Ross, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Emily Blunt jokes she would've 'been pissed' if Johnson and director Benny Safdie, her Oppenheimer costar, hadn't asked her to play Dawn.
—Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
The $28 billion American hemp industry employs 300,000 people, and plenty of them are pissed at the government crackdown.
—Mary Jane Gibson, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2025
When Nile gets home at five in the morning after not answering her texts or calls, Nina is understandably pissed.
—Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
Those things really piss me off.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
Snakes and spiders piss me off, just their existence.
—Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
My characters are always in the service of pissing people off.
—Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025
But new faces are going to show up in Edgewater this season — a revolving door of big, splashy, bold characters roll through, piss people off, disrupt our world.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025
Which pisses me off, even through my white-hot shame.
—Allison Lax, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
Everybody’s ripping on one another, taking the piss out, winding each other up.
—Tracee Ellis Ross, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Piss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piss. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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