piss-take
/ˈpɪsteɪk/
piss-take noun: an instance of taking the piss. Also the alternative form of take the piss.
Noun
piss-take (plural piss-takes)
- 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
- A parody.
- 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
- 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
- An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
- this job is a piss take.
Also used as
piss-take is also the alternative form of take the piss.
Synonyms of piss-take
Forms of piss-take
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | piss-takes |
| alternative form | piss take |
| alternative form | pisstake |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | piss-takes |
| present participle | piss-taking |
| past | piss-took |
| past participle | piss-taken |
Words formed from piss-take
Questions about piss-take
- What does piss-take mean?
- Piss-take means an instance of taking the piss.
- What part of speech is piss-take?
- Piss-take is a noun.
- How do you pronounce piss-take?
- Piss-take is pronounced /ˈpɪsteɪk/.
- What is the plural of piss-take?
- The plural of piss-take is piss-takes.
Words near piss-take in the dictionary
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