Cool. Often paired with wicked, although considered obsolete by some.
"Jimmy's got a pissa new cah, a '83 Monee Cahlo with a 350, headiz, anna new leathinteriah."
Don Hurter
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re: Pissa
By guy
Thu, 02/19/2004 - 5:11pm
Pissa=pissed off. i.e. "I got in late last night and my mom was wicked pissa."
re: Pissa
By Chris Anderson
Thu, 03/11/2004 - 9:08pm
When someone explains something is pissa, it is usually a bad thing, as in sarcasm. For example when I was working at Dunkin Donuts as a kid and someone asked, " I need foah lahge regulah coffees, and three dozen donuts", we always said, "Oh, Pissa!"Although, when something is wicked pissa, it is usually a good thing. I can't recall hearing someone say wicked pissa in a negative fashion."Did you go to the Aerosmith consit?", "Yeah-r-I did! It was wicked pissa!"Of course there can be exceptions, but Boston sarchasm comes across pretty strong.
re: Pissa
By Matty G
Mon, 05/17/2004 - 3:34pm
Pissa can also be used to describe someone who is giving you a hard time. For example: "You know Timmy, you're a real pissa." Also in more working class bars in Boston it can be used as another name for the bathroom. "Hey Murph, watch my beer I got to go the pissa."
re: Pissa
By Sheila
Sun, 06/13/2004 - 9:50pm
i've only heard "pissa" as the bathroom
re: Pissa
By Brian
Mon, 11/08/2004 - 1:44pm
Hey pissah has two meanings it can be good as in "O man you got Halo that's wicked pissah" or it can be negative as in "Damn I just stepped in dog shit that's just pissah."
re: Pissa
By Dendog
Mon, 11/29/2004 - 12:20pm
Pissa is one of those words that has a variety of meanings though I believe that the primary meaning is positive, which is how I always use it.Some examples:"Hey, is that your new guitah? Pissa.""Hey, you chicks wanna go out with me and my buddy here? Pissa."Hey, how's that new album? I heard it was f***ing pissa.""And you're bringing it to the party? Wicked pissa, man."
re: Pissa
By JohnnieTwoBrows
Sat, 12/25/2004 - 4:49pm
In the movie Airplane! you can actually hear the original expression that pissa came from when Robert Hays is upset and says, "What a pisser!"
re: Pissa
By Don Hurter
Thu, 03/10/2005 - 9:42pm
The term 'pissa' predates Airplane by years, if not a decade or more. The fully etymology probably traces back to some of the townies in the colonial era.
re: Pissa
By Mark
Fri, 03/17/2006 - 2:15am
The meaning of Pissa is found in how you say it, sometimes good sometimes bad.There are also 3 levels of "pissa"1. Pissa2. Wicked Pissa3. Wicked Fucking Pissa
re: Pissa
By Melbel2000
Thu, 03/23/2006 - 12:58am
When you drop a pot of badadas you may say "ahhhhh pissa!"Or if you shart you might shake out the poop and say "awwwwwww pissa I just took a shitta!"
re: Pissa
By a
Sun, 07/01/2007 - 12:55am
Pissa meant "cool" or "great" in parts of Boston. That is slang from 35 years ago. No one uses the word anymore. Only older folks vaguely remember what it means.
re: Pissa
By JP
Mon, 05/26/2008 - 11:56pm
My friends and I always used pissa as a noun referring to a negative situation. As in "I had to wait 45 minutes at the doctor's office. It was a wicked pissa!" In the same context you could say "wicked f***in pissa" and it would mean the same thing.
re: Pissa
By DG
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 2:03pm
Pissa can mean something good or something bad it just depends on what context you use it in, and your voice inflection.He’s a pissaGood-Said with a smile when talking about a friend who did something funny or crazy.Bad- When said with anger because a guy went back on his word or did something out of line
"my mom was wicked pissa"?!?!?
By Moe Kowbel
Wed, 02/10/2010 - 1:16pm
Ya confusin "pissa" with "pissed," you retahd. If you came in late ya mom would be pissed... mostly because huh wicked losah kid is still livin at home.
Having grown up in
By anon
Tue, 06/21/2011 - 12:00pm
Having grown up in Boston,this expression was never in my vernacular. Your mom would be pissed. If she was pissa she would be cool.
1972 pissa
By Sullivan
Mon, 05/17/2010 - 12:15pm
I distinctly remember the older brother of a friend G. Connelly, exclaiming pissa on a side street in Quincy 1972. Thus, way before Airplane. It was vaguely obscene. Not the f-bomb, by any means. Nor did it carry the power of any of the b-words, but it was strong slang nevertheless and not for public consumption in my house.
By way of meaning, pissa always express approval. We never said 'wicked pissa.' That sounds like Cliff in Cheers, like someone trying to sound too Boston. Or maybe that's just the way it was in Quincy where understatement was stronger than anything over the top.
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