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pick flowers

pick flowers verb: to excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.

Verb

pick flowers (third-person singular simple present picks flowers, present participle picking flowers, simple past and past participle picked flowers)

  1. (euphemistic) To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.

Forms of pick flowers

third-person singular presentpicks flowers
present participlepicking flowers
past participlepicked flowers
pastpicked flowers

Origin of pick flowers

"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

Questions about pick flowers

What does pick flowers mean?
Pick flowers means to excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
What part of speech is pick flowers?
Pick flowers is a verb.
What is the past tense of pick flowers?
The past tense of pick flowers is picked flowers.

Words near pick flowers in the dictionary

  1. PICK chart
  2. pick corners
  3. pick dressing
  4. pick fault
  5. pick fights
  6. pick flowers
  7. pick from a hat
  8. pick gooseberry
  9. pick gun
  10. pick guns
  11. pick hammer

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