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went potty

went potty is the simple past of go potty.

Meaning of go potty

Verb (1)

go potty (third-person singular simple present goes potty, present participle going potty, simple past went potty, past participle gone potty)

  1. (childish) To go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.
    • I have to go potty!

Verb (2)

go potty (third-person singular simple present goes potty, present participle going potty, simple past went potty, past participle gone potty)

  1. (UK) To go crazy: to become insane.
    • 'That was the worst thing,' says Adrian. 'My mother just went potty. She said he was going to rot in hell for that.2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Questions about went potty

What is went potty the simple past of?
Went potty is the simple past of go potty.

Words near went potty in the dictionary

  1. went phut
  2. went places
  3. went platinum
  4. went poof
  5. went postal
  6. went potty
  7. went public
  8. went quietly
  9. went rogue
  10. went round
  11. went round in circles

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