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单词 piss-up
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piss-upn.

Brit. /ˈpɪsʌp/, U.S. /ˈpɪsˌəp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: piss v., up adv.1
Etymology: < piss v. + up adv.1 In sense 1 after to piss up at piss v. Phrasal verbs; in sense 2 after pissed up (see pissed adj. 2).
slang.
1. A blunder, a mistake; cock-up n.1 3. Now rare.
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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
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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.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
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bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
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toot1790
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cupping1868
crawl1877
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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.
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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).
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