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In some senses, piss-take is marked as slang, vulgar, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
piss-take
/ˈpɪsteɪk/
noun 3verb 1
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4ADJ.
good, good
VERB + PISS-TAKE
excuse
PISS-TAKE + NOUN
bush, era, everyone
ADV.
basically
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
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.
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.
3
An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
this job is a piss take.
verb
1
Alternative form of take the piss.
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.
Some of the piss-taking was more serious and bordered on bullying.
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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.
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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.
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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 a
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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 bein
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Some of the piss-taking was more serious and bordered on bullying.
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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.
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