piss off

verb

pissed off; pissing off; pisses off

transitive verb

informal + impolite

: anger, irritate

intransitive verb

British, informal + impolite : to leave immediately : scram

—usually used as a command

Examples of piss off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Usually, the answer is that Larry will get much angrier than the situation merits, piss off the people around him, and often both. — Judy Berman, Time, 24 June 2026

Everyone’s pissed off all the time at everything, and a lot of them are right to be. — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 24 June 2026

Like historically pissed off, in this customer-rage sense. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026

Smacked with whole tuna fish after pissing off guy holding whole tuna fish. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1935, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense