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extract the urine en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, humorous, idiomatic) to mock, make fun of something
    • Now, Merilyn is neither bizarre nor eccentric in the ordinary sense but when she started talking about the ‘presence’ in her shop I thought she was extracting the urine. 1997, Des Ryan, “Close brush with hairafter”, in The Messenger: Selected Columns from Messenger Newspapers, 1993-2003, Wakefield Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 42:
    • This is what the English do; take the piss (or as we say at school, extract the urine). 2006, Tyne O'Connell, Dumping Princess, Bloomsbury USA, published 2007, →ISBN, page 34:
    • Actually Connie it refers to the way we extract the urine out of the apparent social differences between each country. 2001 August 19, "BigAl", “Re: fare thee well”, in alt.music.leonard-cohen (Usenet):

Forms

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extracted the urine Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
extracted the urine Tense=Past lexicographic
extracts the urine Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
extracting the urine Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic