empty out

empty out
   to urinate
   It could be no more than cold tea from a pot:
    I stepped out onto the back porch to empty out. (King, 1996)
   Empty your bladder is an explicit circumlocution:
    Go to the bathroom, empty your bladder. (M. McCarthy, 1963)
   Empty yourself is to defecate:
    It was the period when some men ate, or read, or wrote home, or dozed, or just went to the lavatory and emptied themselves. (Forsyth, 1994)

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