pee-pee dance
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of potty dance (“voluntary or involuntary movements resulting from attempting to avoid urination when one's bladder is full, typically by crossing one's legs, hopping, twitching, or holding one's crotch”).
Humorous
verb
Synonym of potty dance (“to move in this manner; to perform the potty dance.”).
Intransitive verb
Example Sentences
- "From then on, desperate attempts at humor come from things like Bobby doing "the pee-pee dance" (in a sympathetic trance with someore's full bladder), or diagnosing a cardinal's hemorrhoids, or running around in his underwear in church."
- "By now I had to go so bad I was doing the pee-pee dance. Imagine standing with your legs pressed together very tightly, both hands opening and closing in front of your pants. The expression on your face is of a very frightened and panic stricken person. You are also jumping up and down... pacing around in circles, looking for the place of relief."
- "The mother waited patiently while the boy played with Lego. She turned the camera on and recorded quiet play and then the transition to motor activity in the legs. Mom asked her son to go to the bathroom when she saw the pee-pee dance."
Etymology
From pee-pee (“colloquial, usually childish: urine”) + dance, because the movements ostensibly resemble dance moves.