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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)

  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.
    • 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
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) 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
pluralpiss-takes
alternative formpiss take
alternative formpisstake
Verb
third-person singular presentpiss-takes
present participlepiss-taking
pastpiss-took
past participlepiss-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

  1. piss-pots
  2. piss-prophet
  3. piss-prophets
  4. piss-slit
  5. piss-slits
  6. piss-take
  7. piss-taker
  8. piss-takers
  9. piss-takery
  10. piss-takes
  11. piss-taking

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