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Meaning of piss-take | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈpɪsteɪk/

Definitions

  1. An instance of taking the piss.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar
  2. A parody.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar
  3. An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang, vulgar

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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