pile of poo

noun

Something worthless.

Meanings

nounpile of poo (plural piles of crap)

plural piles of crap

  1. slangvulgarSomething worthless.

    This led him inevitably to the current pile of poo he now found himself in.

    2012, Benny Goodman, Sweetest Moments Finest Hours, page 3
    1 more example

    “Just in case this pile of poo backfires and lands on us, I don't want to get sued.”

    2013, Robyn Peterman, How Hard Can It Be?, page 99
  2. An emoji in the shape of a coiled pile of feces with a smiling face (💩).

    I send it with a smiling pile of poo. Natice stops texting and calls.

    2017, Cheryl Guerriero, Girl on Point, page 207
    1 more example

    " But eventually tech-savvy users in the U.S., who were curious about the Japanese emoji phenomenon, figured out that you could force your phone to open this hidden keyboard by downloading a Japanese-­language app, and voilà—suddenly you could bejangle your texts with a smiling Pile of Poo. ... Twitter's pile of poo also has eyes but looks kind of surprised, perhaps because it’s only just realized that it’s a sentient pile of poo with eyes. So if your pile of poo is smiling, it’s likely because you have an iPhone, and someone at Apple thought it’d be fun to make the poo happy.

    2014 November 18, Adam Sternbergh, “Smile, You're Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue”, in New York Magazine
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Chicago

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