English

Noun

pisstake ‎(plural pisstakes)

1. Alternative form of piss-take
   • 2009, Maddox Kent, The Writing Class, ISBN 1326061151, page 305:

     They were lowbrow pastiche. The Adventures of Vicarage Leadbetter, a low-budget pisstake of Sherlock Holmes written for Radio Four.

   • 2012, Simon Goddard, Mozipedia: The Encyclopedia of Morrissey and The Smiths, ISBN 0091927102, page 116:

     The passing of time clearly did nothing to erode his affection since he included tracks from both among his interval music when touring in 2004: Eno's wicked Ferry pisstake Dead Finks Don't Talk', the fuzzy assault of 'Here Come The Warm Jets' and the blissful, drowsy 'taking Tiger Mountain'.

   • 2014, Mitchell Duneier, ‎Philip Kasinitz, ‎& Alexandra Murphy, The Urban Ethnography Reader, ISBN 0199743576, page 340:

     Very often the topic for the “pisstake” is sexual, though it can be anything—the more personal, sharper and apposite the better. The soul of wit for them is disparaging relevance: the persistent searching out of weakness.

Verb

pisstake ‎(third-person singular simple present pisstakes, present participle pisstaking, simple past took the piss, past participle taken the piss)

1. Alternative form of take the piss
   • 2000, Garry Robson, No One Likes Us, We Don't Care, ISBN 1859733670, page 78:

     The internal dynamics of the group itself may be extremely violent, for violence and pisstaking are inextricably linked, and each are involved in the central sphere of having a laff (Willis 1988: 29).

   • 2008, Peter Rose, The Best Australian Poems 2008, ISBN 1863953035, page 34:

     electric shaolin immersed in hank williams rockabilly licks altering from slight tinny emanations / to pisstake metal induced crowd to behave together in pub sing song / as if all were bardic poets raising black pints of swill

   • 2009, George Same, Yxsy Glyxsy, ISBN 1491892692, page 283:

     Richard deflected the pisstaking by pointing out Jim's pants, which had a logo, which said, ' Caution Long Vehicle.' The general opinion was this was an over-optimistic assessment.

   • 2010, Rob Maylor, SAS Sniper: The Rob Maylor story, ISBN 0733627250:

     It was all laughter and pisstaking as we boarded via the back ramp and into the smell of diesel and carbon monoxide inside the tank deck.

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