go potty

present singular third person goes potty · participle present going potty · past went potty · participle past gone potty

1. childishTo go and use the potty: to leave in order to urinate or defecate.

   I have to go potty!

   2 more examples

   I simply came outside to go potty, and found myself abandoned, having to rely totally on my primal urges! ... Like the sudden urge to go potty again.

   2000 October 4, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic)

   "Our Toilets are gone! We've got to go potty! Oh, we do not Like this! Oh, no do we notty!"

   2011, Dav Pilkey, Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, page 113

   Synonyms: use the toilet, defecate, and Thesaurus:urinate

present singular third person goes potty · participle present going potty · past went potty · participle past gone potty

1. UKTo go crazy: to become insane.

   'That was the worst thing,' says Adrian. 'My mother just went potty. She said he was going to rot in hell for that.

   2008 May 31, Elizabeth Day, Graham Keeley, “My father, RD Laing: 'he solved other people's problems - but not his own'”, in The Observer, →ISSN

   Synonyms: flip one's wig, flip out, freak out, get one's freak on, go ballistic, go bananas, go berserk, go bonkers