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cat piss

Vulgar

Any beverage of low quality.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

I cannot drink this coffee; it tastes like cat piss.

CONTEXTUAL

The bartender served us a cheap, watery beer that tasted exactly like cat piss.

COMPLEX

After the sommelier poured the vinegar-like vintage, the critic remarked that the wine tasted like absolute cat piss.


From *cat* + *piss*. The marijuana sense derives from the perceived resemblance of the smell.


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  4. 04

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Last updated August 10, 2026