pissing contest
noun
chiefly US, informal + sometimes vulgar
: a competition between rivals to determine superiority, predominance, or leadership
called also pissing match
Word History
First Known Use
1971, in the meaning defined above
- puzzle lock
- puzzle out
- puzzle over
- puzzled
- puzzled (out)
- puzzled out
- puzzled over
- puzzledly
- puzzleheaded
- puzzleheadedness
- puzzleheadednesses
- puzzlement
- puzzlements
- puzzlepated
- puzzler
- puzzlers
- puzzles
- puzzles (out)
- puzzles out
- puzzles over
- puzzling
- puzzling (out)
- puzzling out
- puzzling over
- puzzlingly