piss-take
/ˈpɪsteɪk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.16 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
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."
Usage
Inflected Forms
piss-takes (plural)
piss take (alternative)
pisstake (alternative)
piss-takes (present, singular)
piss-taking (participle, present)
piss-took (past)
piss-taken (participle, past)