Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also piss out) to leave.

[1919		W.H. Downing Digger Dialects 39: p.o.q. — go away!].
1922		‘J.H. Ross’ Mint (1955) 155: You piss off, Pissquick. Nobody loves you, in my squad.
1947		J. Maclaren-Ross Of Love And Hunger 176: ‘Righto, Barnes. Fall out. See you all next week,’ and with that he pissed off in his Packard.
1959		K. Amis letter 30 July in Leader (2000) 561: She pissed off at about 9.
1965		L. Haylen Big Red 2: If he wasn’t drunk I’d drop him. Down like a tack. If it wasn’t for Mum I’d piss off.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 148: ‘What do you mean gone,’ Whiteside demanded. ‘What I said [...] Pissed off. Imshied.’.
1984		Flame : a Life on the Game 14: Piss off back to the man you’ve just been with.
1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 42: ‘[K]eep him at your place till Tuesday. Then you can both piss off’.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 108: Garcìa was about to tell the dispatcher to piss off.
1992		R.G. Barrett White Shoes 258: Him and KK are as thick as pig shit; they’re always pissing off together.
1994		D. Fallowell One Hot Summer in St Petersburg 221: Then she pissed off to the Crimea.
1999		P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Given it a lot of thought [...] Reckon I’ll tell him to piss off.
2004		T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 2: I dream of escaping, pissing off north.
2005		P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] ‘Rich bastards pissouta Port!’ he shouted.
2015		N. Cummins Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] It wasn’t long before half the first-grade side pissed off.
2020		G. Armstrong Young Team 39: ‘Shut it, wee man, n piss aff’.
2023		A. Nette Orphan Road 40: ‘Dad had to piss off out of the country’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 543: [S]o why not piss off back into the gluten-scope cellar with your crock of folkloric baloney.

2. (also piss up) to annoy; thus pissed-offness, a state of anger; thus euph. as wee-wee off v.

1945		in T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) 197: Them fuckers piss me off.
1952		J. Jones From Here to Eternity (1998) 162: No wonder you’re pissed off.
1953		R. Mais Hills were Joyful Together (1966) 150: You know somep’n boy, she’d piss you up. That baby she’s tough. She’d make you piss.
1961		(con. early 1950s) J. Peacock Valhalla 279: Giff forced himself to [...] look down at the Kizer, seeing the red glimmer of his pissed-offness.
1968		G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 164: The selector had a snitch on me — He wee-wees me off.
1974		D. Mamet Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1994) 95: That pisses the fuck off outta me.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 33: The idea of being stiffed by a golf course flunky pissed me off.
1996		P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [He’s] mooching around outside, too scared to come in in case he pisses me off.
1997		(con. 1970s) G. Pelecanos King Suckerman (1998) 65: Dewey called Jimmy Toothpick just to piss him off.
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 179: It pisses him off that the landlord lets them come here and rip him off.
2004		(con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 33/1: Quite a few of them had done time and some carried guns. It didn’t pay to piss them off.
2006		C. Carr Our Town 267: Dusty just radiated rage. [...] ‘And you know something that really pisses me off?’ Dusty continued.
2010		K. Richards Life 27: She pissed me off because she [...] could always run faster than me.
2015		S. King Finders Keepers (2016) 293: He pissed me off, Pete. Do you want to piss me off?
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 320: Whatever madness drove her to piss him off, it’s done now.
2016		in Guardian 30 June 🌐 Well he [i.e. Boris johnson] has just pissed off 17 odd million white, uneducated, low IQ racist swivel eyed loons, so best stay indoors for a while.
2016		D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] [T]he young man’s arrogance had pissed him off.
2020		D. Winslow ‘Crime 101’ in Broken 65: [...] bragged in a club, pissed off his old lady, or gotten busted on another charge.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 41: [H]e was pissing me off and I was pissing him off.
2021		C. Hammer Opal Country 327: ‘Why piss off a cop when you don’t need to?’.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 220: I know he pissed off the wrong people.

3. in trans. use of sense 1, to send someone away.

1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 13: If I had my way [...] I’d piss you off back to bloody stinken Queensland.
1991		R.G. Barrett Between the Devlin 57: ‘I pissed that caretaker off’.
2002		R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 26: When are you going to piss Warren off and get with me?

4. vtr. to turn off (e.g. a radio) .

1986

R.G. Barrett Godson 74: ‘Yeah, piss that fuckin’ shit off,’ barked Steelo. ‘I got to listen to that disco fuckin’ garbage four nights a week [...] Stick it in your arse’.

5. (Aus./US) vtr. to get rid of, to dispose of.

1986		R.G. Barrett Godson 357: ‘But how about we piss that car off and I’ll tell you all about it’.
1988		(con. 1930s) D. Jenkins Fast Copy 262: [I]t wasn’t right for a celebrity like him to piss off twenty thousand dollars with you. He said he didn’t get in the oil business to lose money.