Pronunciations
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/ʃɪt/
Noun
Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
Usage- Colloquial
- Countable
- literally
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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The field is covered in shit.
He left a shit in the toilet.
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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.
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.”)
The act of shitting.
Usage- Colloquial
- Countable
- Informal
- literally
- usually
- Vulgar
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I need to take a shit.
Rubbish; worthless matter.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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Throw that shit out!
Get rid of that shit!
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Bring that shit to the disposal.
Stuff, things.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
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JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.
Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away
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.
(the shit) The best of its kind.
Usage- US usage
- Colloquial
- definite
- Slang
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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These grapes are the shit!
Genitalia, especially male.
Usage- Slang
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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jerk one's shit
Nonsense; bullshit.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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Everything he says is a load of shit.
Enough of this shit!
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Quit your shit!
What is this shit?
Aw, this shit again?
This guy is full of shit.
A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
Usage- Colloquial
- Countable
- usually
- Vulgar
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Her son has been a real shit to her.
I am a shit and a rotter.
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Get the fuck out of here you little shit!
…I hate you back, you little shit!
(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.)
Anything.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
- in the negative
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We don’t have shit to live on.
John can't sing for shit.
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You ain't shit.
The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
Usage- Colloquial
- Countable
- usually
- Vulgar
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I don't give a shit.
A problem or difficult situation.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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I'm in some serious shit.
Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
A strong rebuke.
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
Usage- Colloquial
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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‘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.’
Anything exceptional or remarkable.
Usage- Slang
- Uncountable
- usually
- Vulgar
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I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?
Adjective
Of poor quality; worthless.
Usage- Colloquial
- Vulgar
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What a shit film that was!
Nasty; despicable.
Usage- Colloquial
- Vulgar
- Synonyms
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That was a shit thing to do to him.
Verb
To defecate.
Usage- Colloquial
- Intransitive
- literally
- Vulgar
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.
To excrete (something) through the anus.
Usage- Colloquial
- literally
- Transitive
- Vulgar
To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
Usage- Colloquial
- literally
- Reflexive
- Transitive
- Vulgar
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I laughed so hard I shat myself.
To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
- Colloquial
- Slang
- Vulgar
- Examples
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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?"
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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.”
'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.
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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.
To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
Usage- Colloquial
- Transitive
- Vulgar
- Synonyms
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Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
To annoy.
Usage- Australia
- Ireland
- New-Zealand
- UK usage
- Colloquial
- Transitive
- Vulgar
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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.
Interjection
Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
Usage- Colloquial
- mildly
- Slang
- Vulgar
- Examples
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Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
Holy shit!
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Oh, shit!
Used to show displeasure or surprise.
Usage- Colloquial
- Vulgar
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"Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.
Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.
Usage- Colloquial
- Vulgar
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All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.
Noun
obscene terms for feces
Obscene word for unacceptable behavior
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I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk
what he said was mostly bull
a small worthless amount
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you don't know jack
a coarse term for defecation
- Synonyms
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he took a shit
insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- Broader terms
something of little value
- Broader terms
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his promise is not worth a damn
not worth one red cent
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not worth shucks
Verb
give away information about somebody
- Broader terms
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He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam
have a bowel movement
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The dog had made in the flower beds