piss-take
An instance of taking the piss.
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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.
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An unpleasant situation that is comparable to a parody.
“I'm just doing it so I can write the greatest piss-take airport book ever written.”
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.
“I'm just doing it so I can write the greatest piss-take airport book ever written.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, Britain, slang) The act of taking the piss.