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outflow and are carried some five feet ahead of the lobster in its plume ... What the researchers discovered during the ensuing fights was that dueling lobsters accompanied their most punishing blows during combat by intense squirts of piss at the opponent's face. What was more, in scenes akin to a showdown at the OK Corral, the winner of the physical combat almost always turned out to be the lobster that had urinated first. And well after the fight was over, the winner kept pissing. By contrast, the loser shuts off his urine valves immediately.
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In the third episode of the second series of Australian children’s TV show “Round the Twist”, all the boys gather around together at the boy’s toilet trough to see who can pee the highest. The bully character James Gribble is usually the one who wins, until a water spirit helps the young character
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hearing before the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate F.C.C. where a politician was quoted as saying: "You boys have to understand â€Š that I have to deal with a combination like that of Hartley-David; it is like having a pissing contest with a skunk." The OED's first citation of pissing
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The American lobster urinates not from some posterior region of its body, but directly out the front of its face. Two bladders inside the head hold copious amounts of urine, which the lobster squirts through a pair of muscular nozzles beneath its antennae. These powerful streams mix with the gill
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separates its definition of "pissing match" (a conflict involving "unpleasantries") from "pissing contest" (a conflict with negative attacks made by both sides). For "pissing contest" it offers a different image from other reference works: "From the graphic if vulgar image of two men urinating on
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between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. as a pissing contest in which each country developed bigger and more powerful weapons until "each super power could obliterate the other multiple times over as well along with the rest of the world" and that "the term super power did not refer to intelligence".
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the highest, the farthest, for the longest, or the most accurately. Although the practice is usually associated with adolescent boys, women have been known to play the game, and there are literary depictions of adults competing in it. Since the 1940s, the term has been used as a
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There is also early Irish literature about female pissing contests. In the story "Aided Derbforgaill" several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow. The winner is Derbforgaill, wife of
331:'s character confronts him in a bathroom, shows him he has just taken his job, fires him, and then pees on his shoes saying, "I'm just marking my territory, and you got in the way". The competitor, played by 160:, but the other women attack her out of jealousy and mutilate her by gouging out her eyes and cutting off her nose, ears, and hair, resulting in her death. Her husband Lugaid also dies, from grief, and 381:
There is also early Irish literature about female pissing contests. In the story "Aided Derbforgaill" several women compete to see who can urinate deepest into a pile of snow.
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Bronson win the competition by shooting his pee stream up the backing wall of the trough, above the flush box and over the wall for many other boys and girls to watch.
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who thought up the indispensable pissing contest" and other crass phrases such as crock of shit, pussy-whipped, and horse's ass.
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phrase describing contests that are "futile or purposeless", especially if waged in a "conspicuously aggressive manner". As a
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The secret life of lobsters: how fishermen and scientists are unraveling the mysteries of our favorite crustacean
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there is a pissing contest between two competitors. During a figurative pissing contest with a sleazy rival,
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that he wouldn't "get into a pissing contest with that skunk." Eisenhower's secretary of state,
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Carl Marstrander (1911), “The Deaths of Lugaid and Derbforgaill”, Ériu 5, pp. 201–218
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avenges the deaths by demolishing a house with the women inside, killing 150.
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includes a story about a husband and wife who compete in a pissing contest.
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was created from a revision of this article dated 5 April 2020
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each other". Both phrases are said to originate in the United States.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J–Z
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included a pissing contest as part of the duncely games in Book 2 of
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Pissing contests usually, but not always, take place between males.
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A pissing contest takes place between two characters of the novel
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was described as pissing contest. A review of American novelist
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Competition to see who can urinate the farthest or highest
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or facetious manner that is often considered vulgar. The
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Peeing contest
urinate
slang
idiomatic
metaphor
figuratively
ego
pejorative
image of two people urinating on each other
Oxford English Dictionary
Federal Communications Committee
Washington Post
Sino-Soviet arguments
Urban Dictionary
Kacie T. H.
Guinness World Records
Havelock Ellis
urinate standing
Lugaid Riab nDerg
CĂș Chulainn
Spraying (animal behavior)
Trevor Corson
lobsters
Dwight Eisenhower
Joseph McCarthy
John Foster Dulles
a crisis in Lebanon
Carl Icahn
Yahoo!
John Barth

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