go to the bathroom

present singular third person goes to the bathroom · participle present going to the bathroom · past went to the bathroom · participle past gone to the bathroom

1. USeuphemisticSynonym of use the toilet: to urinate or defecate, especially (but not exclusively) while visiting a bathroom.

   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.

   1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger

   2 more examples

   Calvin had spilled orange juice on his lap during breakfast and worried that someone might think he had gone to the bathroom in his pants.

   1995, Louis Sachar, Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger

   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.

   2009, Marcia Stedron, My Roller Coaster Life as an Army Wife, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 57

   Synonyms: use the toilet