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piss-take en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈpɪsteɪk/
  • pĭsʹtāk

Meanings

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) An instance of taking the piss.
    • You don't mind me saying this, but this is not a piss-take, is it? Because I know a few impressionists and you could be one of them. 2012, Roy Chubby Brown, Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown, →ISBN:
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) A parody.
    • What's so funny about Maggie Smith's dowager of Downton is that it's basically a piss-take; but so good a piss-take that everyone takes it for real, because that's how we'd like to view our decaying aristocracy. 2015, Michael Coveney, Maggie Smith: A Biography, →ISBN:
    • “Within minutes, Damon had penned this superb Western theme tune, and I made up some words, a complete piss-take which went, 'I wanna sing in a Western, walk like big John Wayne, I wanna kill a hudred injuns, then shoot myself in the brain.' The rest of the class were gobsmacked because it sounded amazing, but they just didn't get it, it was a total piss-take. 2015, Martin Roach, David Nolan, Damon Albarn - Blur, Gorillaz and Other Fables, →ISBN:
    • The slogan reminds me of Team America, the puppet piss-take of Bush era military interventionism brought to you by the creators of Whale Whores ('America: fuck, yeah!'). But this is no piss-take. 2014, Sam Vincent, Blood and Guts: Dispatches from the Whale Wars, →ISBN:
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
    • this job is a piss take.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
piss-takes Number=Plur lexicographic
piss take alternative lexicographic
pisstake alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

piss-takery

piss-take en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈpɪsteɪk/
  • pĭsʹtāk

Meanings

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, alt-of, alternative, slang, vulgar) Alternative form of take the piss.
    • The fact that I'm Jewish was used as an excuse to piss-take, but I am pretty certain that this was not in any way conscious anti-Semitism. 2015, Sam A Saxon, Flying Bras and…, →ISBN:
    • When someone tells a joke, the object or butt may not be present, or even a real person. Piss-taking is like the stand-up comic joke, in that both have a butt and an audience, in some cases these being one and the same. 2013, David Bennett, Firefighters of Cambridge, →ISBN:
    • Some of the piss-taking was more serious and bordered on bullying. 2015, Stan Osborne, Making The Grade, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
piss-took Tense=Past lexicographic
piss take alternative lexicographic
pisstake alternative lexicographic
piss-taken Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
piss-taking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
piss-takes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

send-up (parody) · parody (parody) · mickey-take (instance of taking the piss) · mickey-take (parody)