shit

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1. colloquialcountableliterallyuncountableusuallyvulgarUsually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.

   The field is covered in shit.

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   He left a shit in the toilet.

   The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.

   2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist

   He also decided that Belters wouldn’t use the term “bullshit,” because there would be no bulls in the Belt. Instead, they would come up with a uniquely Belter curse, “kaka felota,” a term for what happens when your toilet backs up in low gravity and shit floats all over the place. (“Kata felota” literally means “floating shit.”)

   2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021

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

2. colloquialcountableinformalliterallyusuallyvulgarThe act of shitting.

   I need to take a shit.

3. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarRubbish; worthless matter.

   Throw that shit out!

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   Get rid of that shit!

   Bring that shit to the disposal.

   Synonyms: crap, junk, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage

4. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarStuff, things.

   Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.

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   I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.

   JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.

   1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, California: New Line Cinema

   Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away

   2001, “Zip City”, performed by Mike Cooley

   He’s physical and monosyllabic. He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it.

   2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2022

5. UScolloquialdefiniteslanguncountableusuallyvulgar(the shit) The best of its kind.

   These grapes are the shit!

6. slanguncountableusuallyvulgarGenitalia, especially male.

   jerk one's shit

   Synonyms: danger zone, down there, genital organs, genitalia, genitals, genitors, intimate parts, junk

7. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarNonsense; bullshit.

   Quit your shit!

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   Everything he says is a load of shit.

   Enough of this shit!

   What is this shit?

   Aw, this shit again?

   This guy is full of shit.

   Synonyms: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls

8. colloquialcountableusuallyvulgarA nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.

   I am a shit and a rotter.

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   Her son has been a real shit to her.

   Get the fuck out of here you little shit!

   …I hate you back, you little shit!

   1979, Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer, spoken by Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman)

   (Admittedly, the fact that Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s vampiric treasury secretary, was a Fury Road executive producer complicates this whole parallel. I don’t know what to do with that. Even pieces of shit can, I suppose, be involved with great things from time to time.)

   2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2022

   Synonyms: assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot

9. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarAnything.

   You ain't shit.

   You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.

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   We don’t have shit to live on.

   We don’t have anything to live on.

   John can't sing for shit.

   John can't sing at all.

   “…I could even draw you a picture of the woman I murdered on Cape Cod. I could have told the police what her name was, but after they beat the shit out of me, I wasn’t going to tell them shit.”

   2026 September 3, Shreya Lele, quoting Hadden Clark, “The “Lady of the Dunes” Was Found Murdered in 1974. Nearly 50 Years Later, She Got Her Name Back”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2026

10. colloquialcountableusuallyvulgarThe smallest amount of concern or consideration.

    I don't give a shit.

    Synonyms: fuck, damn

11. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarA problem or difficult situation.

    I'm in some serious shit.

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    Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.

12. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarA strong rebuke.

    I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.

13. colloquialuncountableusuallyvulgarAny recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).

    ‘Now,’ he said, ‘if someone would close the curtains and light a joss-stick, I have here for your delight some twenty-four-carat black Nepalese cannabis resin which should be smoked immediately on account of it being seriously good shit.’

    1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 20

14. slanguncountableusuallyvulgarAnything exceptional or remarkable.

    I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?

comparative shitter · comparative more shit · superlative shittest · superlative most shit · alternative s--t · alternative s**t · alternative s—t · alternative Ireland UK shite · alternative sheeyit · alternative sheeit · alternative sheit · alternative shiet · alternative shi · alternative shii · alternative dialectal slang shet

1. colloquialvulgarOf poor quality; worthless.

   What a shit film that was!

   Synonyms: crap, shithouse, shitey, shitty, ass, bad, base, below par

2. colloquialvulgarNasty; despicable.

   That was a shit thing to do to him.

   Synonyms: contemptible, shitty, unpleasant, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy

present singular third person shits · participle present shitting · past shat · past rare shitted · participle past shat · participle past rare shitted · participle past shitten

1. colloquialintransitiveliterallyvulgarTo defecate.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.

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

2. colloquialliterallytransitivevulgarTo excrete (something) through the anus.
3. colloquialliterallyreflexivetransitivevulgarTo defecate on; to soil through defecating.

   I laughed so hard I shat myself.

4. ambitransitivecolloquialslangvulgarTo fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.

   'You should have seen her, Rosie. I think Gordy got such a fright, it was him who shat it.' Nikki chortled. 'I nearly lost it,' Julie said.

   2016, Anna Smith, Rough Cut: Rosie Gilmour 6

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   Of course, the farter does not dislike the smell of his own doing, but anybody else's fart, "Katey, bar the doors" and shouting, "Who shit?"

   2008, Norman A. Richards, What Do Women Gossip About?, page 35

   Ken Anker broke the silence and spoke through the bars. "Whoever is shitting their pants, please stop.” "Sorry," Sysco replied." It must be the food they serve here.”

   2016, R.J. Torbert, No Mercy: A Powers and Johnson Novel, page 316

   I hate that guy. He needs to lay off the cheese or something because he's always shitting farts so hard I'm surprised he doesn't blow out the back of his pants.

   2020, St John Karp, Quake City

5. colloquialtransitivevulgarTo fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.

   Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?

   Synonyms: shit with, abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, catch, trap into, dissemble

6. AustraliaIrelandNew ZealandUKcolloquialtransitivevulgarTo annoy.First known use 20th c.

   I saw red and smashed a plate and a bowl. […] I swept up the mess. I bawled a lot as I swept […] I also thought, I am about to get my period. It absolutely shits me that this should explain anything.

   1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 70

1. colloquialmildlyslangvulgarExpression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.

   Oh, shit!

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   Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!

   Holy shit!

   Synonyms: poo, poop, crap, crud, 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast

2. colloquialvulgarUsed to show displeasure or surprise.

   "Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.

3. colloquialvulgarUsed for mere emphasis; heck, hey.

   All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.

   2017, Darrell Smith, Miracle Baby

1. A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
2. A village in Zanjan Province, Iran.