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piss-up

piss-up noun: a party where people consume alcohol.

Noun

piss-up (plural piss-ups)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, slang, vulgar) A party where people consume alcohol.
    • . . . passed: all bullshitted up for the pictures or a piss-up in the town.1950, Jocelyn Greene, The Goose Cathedral, The Bodley Head, page 14
    • Last night a bunch of them turned out to a pub near Edgeware [sic] Road tube (where a few of them had helped treat the injured on the 7th), and we had a good old-fashioned piss-up courtesy of Europhobia's generous readers.2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere, The Friday Project, p 228

Forms of piss-up

pluralpiss-ups
alternative formpissup

Words formed from piss-up

Questions about piss-up

What does piss-up mean?
Piss-up means a party where people consume alcohol.
What part of speech is piss-up?
Piss-up is a noun.
What is the plural of piss-up?
The plural of piss-up is piss-ups.

Words near piss-up in the dictionary

  1. piss-takery
  2. piss-takes
  3. piss-taking
  4. piss-the-bed
  5. piss-the-beds
  6. piss-up
  7. piss-ups
  8. piss-warm
  9. piss-water
  10. piss-weak
  11. pissaba

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