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piece of shit

piece of shit noun: a bad thing; an object of poor quality.

Noun

piece of shit (plural pieces of shit)

  1. (idiomatic, slang, vulgar) A bad thing; an object of poor quality.
    • This shirt is a piece of shit.
    • Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true1979, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, performed by Monty Python
  2. (derogatory, idiomatic, offensive, slang, vulgar) A despicable person.
    • And it takes the emphasis off of cruising and sexuality, and makes it more like kind of a party thing, and everybody feels comfortable, and nobody feels like "I'm a piece of shit 'cause I didn't get somebody tonight," and they don't feel so lonely.1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8
    • But then Zhao Jun switched to English and said, “I'll kick your face in, you piece of shit,” and it came out electric fluent, no one laughed. “How dare you call him a piece of shit?” the man's wife shrieked.2010, Rachel DeWoskin, Foreign Babes in Beijing […] , W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 287
  3. (vulgar) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, shit.

piece of shit meaning in Indonesian

piece of shit in Indonesian

a bad thing
sampah, brengsek
a despicable person
brengsek

Examples of piece of shit in a sentence

  • When Jerry speaks of “The worst piece of shit I ever read,” he is not speaking of the book, Great Balls of Fire, but of the script to the movie.1989 August, Murray Silver, SPIN, page 10:
  • Tech-savvy consumers are lining up today to be the first to purchase Sony's brand new stupid piece of shit that doesn't do the goddamn thing it's fucking supposed to.2009, The Onion, 0:06 from the start, in Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work, spoken by Brandon Armstrong (Peak...
  • I wanna dedicate this next one to an absolute piece of shit of a human being.2025 September 15, Poppy Burton, quoting Bobby Vylan, “Bob Vylan gig cancelled after venue say Charlie Kirk statements “go too far””, in...

Synonyms of piece of shit

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Forms of piece of shit

pluralpieces of shit

Questions about piece of shit

What does piece of shit mean?
Piece of shit means a bad thing; an object of poor quality.
What is piece of shit in Indonesian?
Piece of shit in Indonesian is sampah, brengsek. See Piece of shit meaning in Indonesian.
How do you use piece of shit in a sentence?
When Jerry speaks of “The worst piece of shit I ever read,” he is not speaking of the book, Great Balls of Fire, but of the script to the movie.
What part of speech is piece of shit?
Piece of shit is a noun.
What is the plural of piece of shit?
The plural of piece of shit is pieces of shit.

Words near piece of shit in the dictionary

  1. piece of paper
  2. piece of piss
  3. piece of poop
  4. piece of pork
  5. piece of rubbish
  6. piece of shit
  7. piece of shite
  8. piece of shites
  9. piece of someone
  10. piece of tail
  11. piece of the action

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