Meaning

An instance of taking the piss..

Definitions by Sense

1. An instance of taking the piss.
2. A parody.
3. An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
4. Alternative form of take the piss.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

“Within minutes, Damon had penned this superb Western theme tune, and I made up some words, a complete piss-take which went, 'I wanna sing in a Western, walk like big John Wayne, I wanna kill a hudred injuns, then shoot myself in the brain.' The rest of the class were gobsmacked because it sounded amazing, but they just didn't get it, it was a total piss-take.

this job is a piss take.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• piss-takes
• piss take
• pisstake
• piss-taking
• piss-took
• piss-taken

Synonyms for piss-take

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