shit

Noun

shit (usually uncountable, plural shits)

1. (colloquial, countable, literally, uncountable, usually, vulgar) Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
   • The field is covered in shit.
   • He left a shit in the toilet.

   Synonyms:

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

2. (colloquial, countable, informal, literally, usually, vulgar) The act of shitting.
   • I need to take a shit.
3. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) Rubbish; worthless matter.
   • Throw that shit out!
   • Get rid of that shit!

   Synonyms:

   crap, junk, cultch, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, litter, pelf

4. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) Stuff, things.
   • I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
   • Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
5. (US, colloquial, definite, slang, usually, vulgar) (the shit) The best of its kind.
   • These grapes are the shit!
6. (slang, usually, vulgar) Genitalia, especially male.
   • jerk one's shit

   Synonyms:

   danger zone, down there, genital organs, genitalia, genitals, genitors, intimate parts, junk, nethers, no-no spot

7. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) Nonsense; bullshit.
   • Everything he says is a load of shit.
   • Enough of this shit!

   Synonyms:

   absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil

8. (colloquial, countable, usually, vulgar) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
   • Her son has been a real shit to her.
   • I am a shit and a rotter.

   Synonyms:

   assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot, assfuck, assfucker

9. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) Anything.
   • We don’t have shit to live on.
   • John can't sing for shit.
10. (colloquial, countable, usually, vulgar) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
    • I don't give a shit.

    Synonyms:

    fuck, damn

11. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) A problem or difficult situation.
    • I'm in some serious shit.
    • Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
12. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) A strong rebuke.
    • I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
13. (colloquial, usually, vulgar) Any 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. (slang, usually, vulgar) Anything exceptional or remarkable.
    • I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?

Adjective

shit (comparative shitter or more shit, superlative shittest or most shit)

1. (colloquial, vulgar) Of poor quality; worthless.
   • What a shit film that was!

   Synonyms:

   crap, shithouse, shitey, shitty, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf, BTEC

2. (colloquial, vulgar) Nasty; despicable.
   • That was a shit thing to do to him.

   Synonyms:

   contemptible, shitty, unpleasant, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap

Verb

shit (third-person singular simple present shits, present participle shitting, simple past shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit, past participle shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit or shitten)

1. (colloquial, intransitive, literally, vulgar) To 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, do one's easement, drite

2. (colloquial, literally, transitive, vulgar) To excrete (something) through the anus.
3. (colloquial, literally, reflexive, transitive, vulgar) To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
   • I laughed so hard I shat myself.
4. (ambitransitive, colloquial, slang, vulgar) To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
   • 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
5. (colloquial, transitive, vulgar) To 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, dissimulate, feign

6. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, transitive) To annoy.
   • 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

Interjection

1. (colloquial, mildly, slang, vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
   • Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
   • Holy shit!

   Synonyms:

   poo, poop, crap, crud, 4uck, ay, chihuahua, blast, bugger, bummer

2. (colloquial, vulgar) Used 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. (colloquial, vulgar) Used 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

Proper noun capitalized: Shit

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