piss-up
Noun
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Noun
piss-up
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A party where people consume alcohol.
- 1950, Jocelyn Greene, The Goose Cathedral, The Bodley Head, p 14:
- . . . passed: all bullshitted up for the pictures or a piss-up in the town.
- 2005, Tim Worstall, 2005: Dispatches from the Blogosphere, The Friday Project, p 228:
- Last night a bunch of them turned out to a pub near Edgeware [sic] Road tube (where a few of them had helped treat the injured on the 7th), and we had a good old-fashioned piss-up courtesy of Europhobia's generous readers.
- 2010, Ben Elton, Meltdown, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=qcHNrtl26bUC&pg=PA202&dq=%22piss-up%22|%22piss-ups%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tsLZT_SOMOK4iQf0q5m6Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22piss-up%22|%22piss-ups%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 202],
- Therefore with the blessing of Lizzie (herself too upset to attend) Rupert had arranged a sort of pre-wake piss-up in the function room of his London club with a malt whisky tasting, several real ales on tap and a takeaway curry delivered.
- 1950, Jocelyn Greene, The Goose Cathedral, The Bodley Head, p 14:
- Russian: пья́нка
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