go to the bathroom
English
Verb
go to the bathroom (third-person singular simple present goes to the bathroom, present participle going to the bathroom, simple past went to the bathroom, past participle gone to the bathroom)
- (euphemistic, chiefly US) Synonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
- He had been married to Vi for twenty-one years, and he still found it impossible to go to the bathroom when she was in there with him.
- 2009, Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 57:
- It seems that Chris [a dog] squatted to go to the bathroom on the carpet and Chuck panicked and jumped up, rushed over, and managed to catch the droppings in his hand.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger