curl one off
A British slang euphemism for defecating.
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A British slang euphemism for defecating. The phrase is descriptively visual — referencing the coiled shape of a stool — and belongs to the long British tradition of creative, semi-humorous toilet vocabulary. Used mostly in casual, laddish conversation, it's crude without being particularly offensive, slotting neatly into banter. Less clinical than 'defecate,' less blunt than 'take a dump,' it occupies the sweet spot of toilet humour that keeps things funny rather than shocking.
He disappeared for twenty minutes during the film and came back looking relieved — clearly had to curl one off.
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(slang, intransitive) To defecate.
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A crude British and Australian colloquial phrase meaning to defecate. Like much toilet humor slang, it favors the oblique and physical — the verb 'bend' evoking the physical effort sometimes involved. It's the kind of expression you'd hear in a pub conversation or a locker room, where euphemistic but still vulgar language is the preferred register. More common among older generations and working-class speakers in the UK and Australia, it's blunt, unglamorous, and entirely functional.
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