English

Noun

pissing contest ‎(plural pissing contests)

1. Used other than as an idiom: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.
2. (idiomatic, vulgar, slang) A pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter.

   I'm not getting into a pissing contest with him over who has the fastest car.

   • 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Scribner (ISBN 978-0-684-87435-7)

     She won him in a pissing contest.

Synonyms

• (pointless competition or dispute): dick-measuring contest, pissing match, pissing war, shitting match

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