piss-up

1. 1.

   vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking

   Broaderbust

   United Kingdom

Questions about piss-up

What does piss-up mean?

piss-up means "vulgar expression for a bout of heavy drinking".

How many syllables are in piss-up?

piss-up has 2 syllables and divides as pis-s-up under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is piss-up a common word?

piss-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.