poop out

phrasal verb

pooped out; pooping out; poops out
US, informal
1
: to stop working properly
The old radio finally pooped out.
2
: to become very tired
We worked all morning but we pooped out in the afternoon.
3
: to make (someone) very tired
That hike really pooped me out.
I'm all pooped out.

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Residential plants are still food for birds, who might munch on berries before flying to a nearby river or state park and poop out invasive plant seeds upon arrival. Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 20 Aug. 2025 The cows then poop out cysts, which get eaten by snails, and their faeces get eaten by ants. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025 The poop is dry and hard enough so that for ant species that don’t have indoor toilet chambers, the workers can just kick the poop out of the nest. Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2025 What stops someone from slicing across a switchback in South Colony Basin is not the same thing that keeps them from packing their poop out of Petrified Forest. Sarah Scoles, JSTOR Daily, 11 June 2025 In these environments, Leave No Trace rules dictate that visitors pack their poop out. Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2024 There’s a lot of cleaning equipment, chopping frozen fish for fish smoothies and scrubbing slimy pinniped poop out of the pens. Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024 Termites poop out perfect little hexagons By Dr. Jessica Ware Termites eat cellulose, but rely on the endosymbionts in their hindgut to digest it. Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 3 July 2024

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