spend a penny

Questions about spend a penny

What does spend a penny mean?

spend a penny means "eliminate urine".

What is another word for spend a penny?

Close synonyms include make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spend a penny a common word?

spend a penny is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.