take a leak

Questions about take a leak

What does take a leak mean?

take a leak means "eliminate urine".

What is another word for take a leak?

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 take a leak a common word?

take a leak 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.