pick flowers

verb

To excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.

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Meanings

verbpick flowers (third-person singular simple present picks flowers, present participle picking flowers, simple past and past participle picked flowers)

present singular third person picks flowers · participle present picking flowers · participle past picked flowers · past picked flowers

  1. euphemisticTo excuse oneself from a group and urinate or defecate outdoors.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, flowers.

Origin

"Picking flowers" is a sufficiently obvious excuse for separating from a group and squatting down outside that it is found in a wide range of places and languages, from Britain to Botswana and Japanese to Isan.

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APA

pick flowers. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pick%20flowers

MLA

“pick flowers.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pick%20flowers. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pick flowers,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pick%20flowers.

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