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pisstake

/ˈpɪsteɪk/

pisstake is the alternative form of piss-take.

pisstake is the alternative form of take the piss.

Meaning of piss-take

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
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar) An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
    • this job is a piss take.

Meaning of take the piss

Verb

take the piss (third-person singular simple present takes the piss, present participle taking the piss, simple past took the piss, past participle taken the piss)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To tease, ridicule or mock (someone).
    • You know, cos he was like taking the piss out of them and they took the piss out of him.1987, Judy Vermorel, Sex Pistols: the inside story, page 16
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To subject those present to teasing, ridicule or mockery, or to show contempt.
    • He's either taking it easy or taking the piss by arriving at the eleventh hour.2008, Will Swanton, Some Day: Inside the Dream Tour and Mick Fanning's 2007 Championship Win
  3. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, idiomatic, intransitive, slang) To be outrageously unreasonable.
    • I've got three exams on the same day! That's taking the piss!

Forms of pisstake

Noun
pluralpisstakes
Verb
third-person singular presentpisstakes
present participlepisstaking
pastpisstook
past participlepisstaken

Questions about pisstake

What is pisstake the alternative form of?
Pisstake is the alternative form of piss-take.
How do you pronounce pisstake?
Pisstake is pronounced /ˈpɪsteɪk/.

Words near pisstake in the dictionary

  1. pisspools
  2. pisspot
  3. pisspots
  4. Pissrael
  5. pissroom
  6. pisstake
  7. pisstakes
  8. pisstaking
  9. Pisstified
  10. pissup
  11. pissups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pisstake (page history and authors); piss-take (page history and authors); take the piss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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