Usually means: Surpass all others in audacity.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word take the biscuit:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. take the biscuit: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take the biscuit: Merriam-Webster
  3. take the biscuit: Collins English Dictionary
  4. (really) take the biscuit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. take the biscuit: Wiktionary
  6. Take the Biscuit: The Word Detective
  7. Take the biscuit: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. take the biscuit: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. take the biscuit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. take the biscuit: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. take the biscuit: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (take the biscuit)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, British) To be particularly bad, objectionable, or egregious.

Similar:
cop the bun, give a bugger, bugger, buy the rabbit, bucket, suck butt, die on one's arse, bogart, suck arse, Bobbittize, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, average

Types:
outrageous, unbelievable, unacceptable, preposterous, ludicrous, more...

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Similar:
cop the bun, give a bugger, bugger, buy the rabbit, bucket, suck butt, die on one's arse, bogart, suck arse, Bobbittize, more...

Opposite:
mediocre, average

Types:
outrageous, unbelievable, unacceptable, preposterous, ludicrous, more...



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