单词 | piss-up |
释义 | piss-upn. slang. 1. A blunder, a mistake; cock-up n.1 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder blunder1706 blunderbuss1726 floor1841 bull1846 howler1872 atrocity1878 break1884 bloomer1889 boner1912 bish1937 black1939 blue1941 cock-up1946 piss-up1950 screw-up1950 blob1952 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 158/1 Piss-up, n., a fiasco; a bungled or unremunerative crime. 1969 R. Esser Hot Potato 51 Just what a pissy-arsed bugger like you would say... You mean it might be one hell of a piss-up. 2. Chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand. a. A session of heavy drinking; an occasion where heavy drinking takes place. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 1950 J. Brooke Goose Cathedral i. 14 A few swaddies passed: all bullshitted up for the pictures or a piss-up in the town. 1952 Landfall 6 222 His first ‘piss-up’ is a landmark in his life. 1965 R. Jeffries Traitor's Crime x. 131 How about a piss-up? Anne was only saying yesterday I'd been sober for so long was I declining into my old age? 1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1441/6 Most significant..was the way the seating was arranged at the Saturday night pissup. 2000 Wasafiri Spring 30/2 He still kept his old habit of blithely going off on binges and piss-ups. b. (someone) couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery and variants: (the person) is incapable of organizing the simplest event, task, etc. ΚΠ 1982 P. Redmond Brookside (Mersey TV transmission script) (O.E.D. Archive) Episode 5. 46 Reckons you lot have sold out. And you couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. 1995 W. Deverell Street Legal 208 They're robots.., bureaucrats with initials behind their names, most of 'em couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery. 2004 Mirror (Nexis) 20 May 7 The palace..is run by a music hall regiment of retired military officers who are not fit to run a piss-up in a brewery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1950 |
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