urinater
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From urinate + -er (suffix forming an agent noun, indicating a person who does something).
Noun
[edit]urinater (plural urinaters)
- Alternative spelling of urinator (“a person who urinates”)
- She’s a very loud urinater.
- 1996, R[obert] Emmett Tyrell, Jr., “The Making of the Clinton Cabal”, in Boy Clinton: The Political Biography, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 94; Boy Clinton: The Political Biography[1], 1st e-book edition, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2015, →ISBN:
- [In The Strawberry Statement (1969)] James Simon Kunen chronicled his role as an activist at Columbia University during the student takeover of several campus buildings. He overcame police barricades, climbed through windows, and joined his fellows in occupying the offices of President Grayson Kirk. Then in the company of his olive-drab colleague he urinated in Kirk's wastepaper basket and read his mail. Reviewers esteemed the book highly and pronounced the youthful urinater an authentic Voice of Protest.
- 2000, Michael Stone, “The Homicide Investigation Unit”, in Gangbusters: How a Street-tough Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York’s Most Dangerous Gang, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN; 1st Anchor Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, June 2002, →ISBN, page 28:
- Swamped by so much serious crime, the New York police had all but given up on misdemeanor arrests and the streets teemed with an army of malefactors—beggars, scavengers, squeegee men, graffiti artists, vandals, public urinaters, jostlers, drug pushers, and purse snatchers—fostering the climate for still more violence.