"piss away" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-piss away.ogg [Australia] Forms: pisses away [present, singular, third-person], pissing away [participle, present], pissed away [participle, past], pissed away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} piss away (third-person singular simple present pisses away, present participle pissing away, simple past and past participle pissed away)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive, vulgar, slang) To spend wastefully. Tags: idiomatic, slang, transitive, vulgar Synonyms: fritter away, ;, squander, waste
    Sense id: en-piss_away-en-verb-NhWf9FTo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for piss away meaning in English (1.6kB)

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