poop

Verb (1)

poop (third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To make a short blast on a horn.

   Synonyms:

   toot

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To break wind.

   Synonyms:

   badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur, cut one, cut one loose, cut the cheese

3. (informal, intransitive) To 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, do one's easement, drite

   1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To defecate in or on something.
      • You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.
   2. (informal, intransitive, reflexive) To defecate on one's person.
      • You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.

Noun (1)

poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)

1. (informal) Fecal matter; feces.
   • The dog poop is on the grass.

   Synonyms:

   boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud

2. (informal) An 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. The 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

Interjection

1. (childish, euphemistic) Expressing annoyed disappointment.
   • Poop. The copier's broken again.
   • I don't need him for a friend. I can have fun by myself! ... Poop.1986 July 29, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic)

Noun (2)

poop (uncountable)

1. A 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.
   • 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

Verb (2)

poop (third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)

1. (transitive) To tire, exhaust.
   • I'm pooped from working so hard.

   Synonyms:

   beleaguer, exhaust, fatigue, fordo, do for, gas out, get down, jade, knock up, run someone ragged

2. (reflexive) (with out) To become tired and exhausted.
   • He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.

   Synonyms:

   poop out

Noun (3)

poop (countable and uncountable, plural poops)

1. The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
   • Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.

   Synonyms:

   stern, aft

   Antonyms:

   bow, stem, forestem, fore, prow, prore

2. The 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

Verb (3)

poop (third-person singular simple present poops, present participle pooping, simple past and past participle pooped)

1. (transitive) To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
2. (transitive) To break over the stern of (a vessel).
   • We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
   • 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...1819, James Hardy Vaux, chapter 18, in Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, volume 1, page 207

Noun (4)

poop (plural poops)

1. (informal) A 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
   • 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, idler, idleton

Noun (5)

poop (plural poops)

1. (obsolete) A poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.

Noun (6) capitalized: Poop

Poop (countable and uncountable, plural Poops)

1. Alternative 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
   • 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