pee-pee dance

English

Alternative forms

• pee dance

Etymology

From pee-pee (“colloquial, usually childish: urine”) +‎ dance, because the movements ostensibly resemble dance moves.

Noun

pee-pee dance (plural pee-pee dances)

1. (childish, humorous) Synonym of potty dance (“voluntary or involuntary movements resulting from attempting to avoid urination when one's bladder is full, typically categorised by crossing one's legs, hopping or twitching, and holding one's crotch”)
   • 1989 November 22, Jim Emerson, “No Kidding: The Spirit Simply Doesn't Move 'Second Sight'”, in The Charlotte Observer (Film review), Movies (section), page 12:

     From then on, desperate attempts at humor come from things like Bobby doing "the pee-pee dance" (in a sympathetic trance with someore's full bladder), or diagnosing a cardinal's hemorrhoids, or running around in his underwear in church.

   • 2007, Lawrence J. Clark, The War Within, Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN, page 26:

     By now I had to go so bad I was doing the pee-pee dance. Imagine standing with your legs pressed together very tightly, both hands opening and closing in front of your pants. The expression on your face is of a very frightened and panic stricken person. You are also jumping up and down... pacing around in circles, looking for the place of relief.

   • 2022, Lane M. Robson, How to Manage Day and Night Wetting in Children, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45:

     The mother waited patiently while the boy played with Lego. She turned the camera on and recorded quiet play and then the transition to motor activity in the legs. Mom asked her son to go to the bathroom when she saw the pee-pee dance.

Verb

pee-pee dance (third-person singular simple present pee-pee dances, present participle pee-pee dancing, simple past and past participle pee-pee danced)

1. (intransitive, rare) Synonym of potty dance (“to move in this manner; to perform the potty dance.”)