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pissed

/pɪst/

pissed is the simple past and past participle of piss.

Adjective

pissed (comparative more pissed, superlative most pissed)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, colloquial, mildly) Drunk.
    • The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.1996, Hunter Davies, The Beatles, page 79
    • We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.2006, Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth, page 201
    Synonyms:
    drunk
  2. (Australia, Canada, US, colloquial, mildly, vulgar) Annoyed, angry.
    • That one looks pissed, Ms. Gennero...1987, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, Die Hard, scene 287
    • Some women were physically incapable, and the guys would say, “See, I told you women can′t hack it.” The more I saw of that, the more pissed I got, and the more determined I got to stick it out.1989, Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman, page 255
    Synonyms:
    pissed off

Meaning of piss

Verb

piss (third-person singular simple present pisses, present participle pissing, simple past and past participle pissed)

  1. (intransitive, mildly, vulgar) To urinate.
    • When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
  2. (mildly, transitive, vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.
    • If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, slang, transitive) To achieve easily.
    • "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."2018, Carl Fogarty, The World According to Foggy, Hachette UK, →ISBN
  4. (ambitransitive, mildly, slang, vulgar) To rain heavily.
    • She spent that night under her sheet of polythene and 'somehow managed to get only half wet', waking up the next morning to find that 'it had absolutely pissed down through the night'.1989, Christine Dann, Pip Lynch, Wilderness Women: Stories of New Zealand Women at Home in the Wilderness

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Synonyms of pissed

Forms of pissed

comparativemore pissed
superlativemost pissed

Origin of pissed

From Middle English pissed, pissede, pyssyd, pisside, equivalent to piss + -ed.

Words formed from pissed

Phrases with pissed

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Words that rhyme with pissed

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Questions about pissed

What does pissed mean?
Pissed means drunk.
What is pissed the simple past and past participle of?
Pissed is the simple past and past participle of piss.
What part of speech is pissed?
Pissed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pissed?
Pissed is pronounced /pɪst/.

Words near pissed in the dictionary

  1. pissburnt
  2. pisscutter
  3. pisscutters
  4. pissdale
  5. pissdales
  6. pissed
  7. pissed about
  8. pissed all over
  9. pissed and moaned
  10. pissed around
  11. pissed as a fart

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