wetting one's pants

Verb

wet one's pants (third-person singular simple present wets one's pants, present participle wetting one's pants, simple past and past participle wet one's pants or wetted one's pants)

1. (idiomatic) To wet oneself, to urinate in one's clothes while wearing them.
   • If you keep on refusing to excuse anyone for a bathroom break, you're going to force someone to wet their pants. Don't go overboard with it.
2. (idiomatic, informal, vulgar) To laugh uncontrollably.
   • Pretty much the whole night at the comedy club was hilarious, but that encore by Taylor Tomlinson had me wetting my pants.
3. (idiomatic, informal, vulgar) To be afraid; especially, to be extremely afraid.
   • He just about wet his pants when he found out how many accounts receivable were still outstanding.

   Synonyms:

   crap one's pants, piss one's pants