shit up

verb

To mess up; to ruin.

“The scene where the zombies attacked shat me up.”

Meanings

verbshit up (third-person singular simple present shits up, present participle shitting up, simple past and past participle shit up or shitted up or shat up)

present singular third person shits up · participle present shitting up · participle past shitted up · past shitted up · participle past shat up · past shat up

  1. slangtransitivevulgarTo mess up; to ruin.

    They just go on shitting up the world and feel no responsibility for their character or anything they do.

    1991, Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne, A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979, page 91
  2. slangtransitivevulgarTo cover or smear with excrement.

    To entice the screw into the best position to be shitted up the trick was to ask them to open a door on the landing. Keith was in his cell, conned the screw to the top of the stairs and whooshhhhhh!!!

    2006, Vic Dark, For the Love of the Gun, page 117
    1 more example

    Her roommate Eerie had a panic attack while using the bathroom and shitted up their entire cell/living area screaming "Nina is trying to kill me with voodoo devil worshiping shit" until she was removed and sent to some upstate nut house joint immediately.

    2013, Kenny Attaway, Juici Couture & the Suga-Hill Gang, page 45
  3. UKslangtransitivevulgarTo terrify, upset or otherwise traumatise.

    The scene where the zombies attacked shat me up.

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Chicago

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