piss factory

piss factory

dated slang A cheap, grimy bar; a dive bar. As soon as I got out of prison, I went to the first piss factory I could find and drank myself into a welcome stupor.
See also: factory, piss
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

piss factory

n. a bar, tavern, or saloon. (Usually objectionable.) I stopped in at the piss factory for a round or two.
See also: factory, piss
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • bar
  • creep dive
  • belly up to the bar
  • painkiller
  • quick one
  • quick one, a
  • quickie
  • a quick one
  • Katie
  • Katie, bar the door
References in periodicals archive
After graduating high school in 1964, Smith immediately went to work in a factory, a short experience she hated so much that she titled the song about her time there as 'Piss Factory', which was her first single alongside the song 'Hey Joe'.
Celebrating the 'godmother of punk music', Patti Smith
While Smith is most celebrated for her music and poetry, she has been making photographs since the early '60s, and drawings and paintings since the late '60s, years before cutting her first single, "Piss Factory," in 1974.
Patti Smith: Robert Miller Gallery
Yet the dishevelled star loathes both her iconic status and the title often bestowed upon her of the Godmother Of Punk - odd considering her first independent single was the provocatively-titled Piss Factory.
MUSIC: PATTI SMITH - WITCH AND FAMOUS; ROCK POETESS PATTI SMITH WILL BE CASTING A SPELL OVER ISLINGTON IN HER SPECIAL ONE-OFF PERFORMANCE. BY ALUN PALMER
Shakespeare's child, Rimbaud's avatar, Ginsberg's friend, Burroughs's buddy--and there are photos of Hendrix, Joan of Arc, Bob Dylan, Pope John Paul I, Kurt Cobain, Jackie Onassis all through the book--Patti worships heroes, paradigms mostly who embody various sides of herself: the sexy, defiant, poetic, rude, ass-kicking rocker of "Piss Factory," "Because the Night," "People Have the Power," and an anthem of the sixties that she just happened to write in 1988.
Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future
Almost thirty years have passed since Patti Smith burst out of South Jersey, with a poem--"Piss Factory"--that declared, "I'm going to be somebody, I'm going to go on that train and go to New York City, I'm going to be so bad, I'm going to be so big, I'm going to be a big star, and I will never return."
Patti Smith