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piss-up
noun
a drinking session UK, 1952- [T]hree parties took place in Foolgarah on the same night. Not pol-itical parties (though they could be called that) but grog parties, dings, chevoos, happenings, piss-ups. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 181, 1971
- [A] big farewell piss-up the day before[.] — Andy McNab, Immediate Action, p. 375, 1995
- Noel Gallagher coming round to Tony Blair’s for a piss up, the “Cool Britannia” image. — Dr Cloonan, BBCi Nottingham, February 2003
▶ couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery
used of an inefficient person or organisation UK, 1984
Formed on PISS-UPAll those lame jokes about the Welsh [...] not having the wherewithal to organise a piss-up in a brewery, suddenly fell flat. — The Guardian, 12 June 2003 |