poop

present singular third person poops · participle present pooping · participle past pooped · past pooped

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo make a short blast on a horn.First known use late 14th c.

   Synonyms: toot

2. intransitiveobsoleteTo break wind.First known use 18th c.

   Synonyms: badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur, cut one

3. informalintransitiveTo defecate.

   His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.

   Synonyms: boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two

   1. informalintransitivetransitiveTo defecate in or on something.

      You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.

      Synonyms: boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two

   2. informalintransitivereflexiveTo defecate on one's person.

      You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.

      Synonyms: boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two

plural poops

1. countableinformaluncountableFecal matter; feces.First known use the 18th c.

   The dog poop is on the grass.

   Synonyms: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog

2. countableinformaluncountableAn act of defecation.

   ‘I’m goin’ down the backyard for me mornin’ poop.’

   1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 8

3. countableuncountableThe sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.

   Two minutes passed - five - seven - ten. "Poop! Poop!" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station.

   2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 157 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001

4. InternetabbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).

   The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one.

   2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech

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   And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops.

   2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes

1. childisheuphemisticExpressing annoyed disappointment.

   Poop. The copier's broken again.

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   I don't need him for a friend. I can have fun by myself! ... Poop.

   1986 July 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

1. uncountableA set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

   Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.

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   If Exxon has already made a find, and someone knows about it, they'd be the most likely to be directing the show. We just need to discover who has ties to the D.O.F and is close enough to Exxon to have the inside poop.

   2002, J. Sander, Runoff, page 236

present singular third person poops · participle present pooping · participle past pooped · past pooped

1. transitiveTo tire, exhaust.First known use early 20th c.

   I'm pooped from working so hard.

   Synonyms: beleaguer, exhaust, fatigue, fordo, do for, gas out, get down, jade

2. reflexive(with out) To become tired and exhausted.

   He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.

   Synonyms: poop out

plural poops · alternative obsolete poup · alternative obsolete poupe · alternative obsolete puppe

1. countableuncountablenauticalThe rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

   Holonyms: watercraft < vessel

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   For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.

   Synonyms: stern, aft · Antonyms: bow, stem, forestem, fore, prow, prore

2. countableuncountablenauticalThe poop deck.

   Omens thicken upon us […] Next, the stumbling of the King whenas he went upon the poop of the long ship which bare us on this voyage to these islands.

   1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18

present singular third person poops · participle present pooping · participle past pooped · past pooped · alternative obsolete poup · alternative obsolete poupe · alternative obsolete puppe

1. transitiveTo break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
2. transitiveTo break over the stern of (a vessel).

   We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.

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   Another night, as we were scudding before a heavy gale of wind, and a tremendous sea rolling after us, we had the misfortune to be pooped, as the phrase is, by a wave or sea striking our stern, which stove in the cabin-windows, and rushing impetuously through the cabin, and along the main-deck, bore down all before it.

   1819, James Hardy Vaux, chapter 18, in Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, volume 1, page 207

   Pooping is a hazard of another nature, and is also peculiar to the process of scudding. It merely means the ship's being overtaken by waters while running from them, when the crest of a sea, broken by the resistance, is thrown inboard over the taffrail or quarter.

   1838, Robert Walsh, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art: Volume 33, page 376

plural poops

1. informalA stupid or ineffectual person.

   They talk about art, and think us such poops for dressing in the evening.

   1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC

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   Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

   1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 48, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 224

   Synonyms: bum, couch potato, dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught, do-nothing, dosser

plural poops

1. obsoleteA poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.

plural Poops

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of poop (“video mashup”).

   “Poopisms” are the common techniques and tricks used in videos to ensure they qualify as a true Poop.

   2016 November 29, Amelia Tait, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in The New Statesman, archived from the original on 21 Mar 2023

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   The following year, when YouTube made its grand debut as an online video sharing and social media service, Poops infiltrated the platform and gripped the internet.

   2022 February 27, Malavika Pradeep, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in Screenshot Media, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2024