pee-pee dance

plural pee-pee dances · alternative pee dance

1. childishhumorousSynonym 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”).

   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.

   2022, Lane M. Robson, How to Manage Day and Night Wetting in Children, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45

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   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.

   1989 November 22, Jim Emerson, “No Kidding: The Spirit Simply Doesn't Move 'Second Sight'”, in The Charlotte Observer (Film review), Movies (section), page 12

   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.

   2007, Lawrence J. Clark, The War Within, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN, page 26

   Synonyms: potty dance

present singular third person pee-pee dances · participle present pee-pee dancing · participle past pee-pee danced · past pee-pee danced · alternative pee dance

1. intransitiverareSynonym of potty dance (“to move in this manner; to perform the potty dance.”).

   Synonyms: potty dance