Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) a phr. used when referring to a woman, or to female qualities, e.g. the finest bitch that ever peed between two heels.

1940		D. Maurer Big Con 195: He was ‘married to the most beautiful woman who ever straddled a chamber-pot’.
1972		(con. 1950s) D. Goines Whoreson 111: I believed in my heart I could make as much money as any whore that peed between two heels.

1. to be terrified.

1966		‘Tom Pendleton’ Iron Orchard (1967) 137: You like to peed in your britches today.
1967		F. Salas Tattoo the Wicked Cross (1981) 299: Remember that when the guy looked like he was gonna pee his pants, he showed him that it was just a play gun.
1977		J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 219: They call my number. I’m like peeing in my pants.
1995		J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 247: I’d forgotten that I’d peed my pants.

2. to lose emotional control.

1975

J. Roe The Same Old Grind 29: ‘Now who is goung to announce me?’ ‘Don’t pee your pants, lady. I’ll do it’.

3. to laugh hysterically.

2009

Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 22 Sept. 🌐 ‘Cultural googlie’ nearly made me pee my pants.

see piss in someone’s pocket under piss v.

(US) to waste, to squander.

1967

(con. 1920s) J. Thompson South of Heaven (1994) 17: I’d made plenty of money [...] and peed it all off.

1. to leave, to depart.

1940		P. Larkin letter 9 Dec. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 3: Then we peed off, I lugging my suitcase that became unbearably heavy as the day wore on.
1988		J.W. Warden Wayward Legionnaire 104: The section sergeant approached the Fell and told them to ‘pee off’, but none showed any inclination to depart.

2. to annoy, to irritate.

1958		H. Ellison Web of the City (1983) 97: She peed me off and I took the blade to her, is all.
2011		Guardian 26 Mar. 3/2: I’m peed off with the guy.

1. to treat harshly, to bully.

1978		P. Theroux Picture Palace 137: You peed on Weston, so you’re peeing on me.
2000		Eminem ‘Who Knew’ 🎵 So read up, about how I used to get beat up / peed on, be on free lunch, and change school every 3 months.

2. to ignore, to dismiss.

1992

D. Pinckney High Cotton (1993) 99: They gave him an engraved silver tray and ‘peed on’ the mover’s bill.

to fig. (or lit.) urinate on oneself due to extreme emotion, esp. in the context of being utterly terrified or hugely amused.

1951		D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 267: Every time I thought of what it had about Dargan I nearly peed myself laughing.
1966		P. White Solid Mandala (1976) 147: The little one nearly peed himself.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 147: pee 1. to become excited, overemotional. [...] 2. to become indignant through fear.
1976		L. Dawson The Spy Who Came... 65: I stood there peeing myself.
1984		P. Barker Blow Your House Down 87: She was peeing herself laughing.

a phr. denigrating an unsophisticated, inexperienced youth who supposedly has yet to appreciate the alternative function of his penis; also used of a similarly unsophisticated young woman.

1964		H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 253: Aint nobody gonnna want ta fuck lucy. I bet she thinks its ta piss through.
1979		J. Harrison Letters to Yesenin 39: As my humble country father said in our first birds and bees talk so many years ago ‘That thing ain’t just to pee through’.
1986–7		Maledicta IX 195: This article and series devoted to sexual slang would be incomplete without some notice of catch phrases, both British and American: […] he thinks it’s just to pee through.
1992		C.J. Stevens Folks from Greeley’s Mill 75: Some other woman will give him a tumble. The barn door is open now that he knows the little thing he’s got ain’t just to pee through.
2009		A. Marland Monaro 287: ‘Didn’t waste much time sinking the sausage, Mrs Cummings is well and truly up the duff.’ ‘Good old Cupie, he knows it’s not just to pee through now.’.

a phr. demonstrating one’s absolute contempt for someone.

1969

J. Hibberd Dimboola (2000) 77: mavis [to horrie]: Just wait till I get you home! bayonet: Hang one on her, Horrie! horrie: I wouldn’t pee on her.