poop

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verb (1)

ˈpüp 

pooped; pooping; poops

intransitive verb

informal

: defecate

So while my wife's horse trotted briskly off into the scenery, looking for low branches to run under, my horse just stood there, eating and pooping …

—Dave Barry

poop

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noun (1)

1

informal : feces, excrement

As a brand-new father, a new substance plays a big role in my life: poop.

—Scott Kramer

As the years go by, there's trouble in paradise, and it isn't just the ubiquitous goose poop.

—Katherine Lanpher

2

informal : the act of defecating

I have a complaint against dog owners that take their dogs for a walk but do not take a bag, then let their dog stop by people's mailboxes and take a poop.

—Billie Johnston

poop

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verb (2)

pooped; pooping; poops

intransitive verb

slang : to become exhausted

poop out

transitive verb

slang : to put out of breath

also : to tire out

poop

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noun (2)

1

: an enclosed superstructure at the stern of a ship above the main deck

2

obsolete : stern

poop

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verb (3)

pooped; pooping; poops

transitive verb

1

: to break over the stern of

2

: to ship (a sea or wave) over the stern

poop

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noun (3)

slang

: information, scoop

Synonyms

Noun (1)

• dung
• soil
• dirt
• feces

Noun (3)

• scoop
• tip

Examples of poop in a Sentence

Noun (1)

the mother cat carefully cleaned poop off her newborn kitten's bottom

Noun (3)

the poop was that the ship would be headed to the war zone within a matter of weeks

Recent Examples on the Web

Verb

Weighing more than 2,000 pounds, one bison will poop enough in a typical day to fill a 3-gallon bucket. —Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025

How to poop in the backcountry So what to do when there really is no potty? —B. Derrick Taff, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2025

Noun

Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer. —Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025

Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage. —Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Verb (1)

earlier, to break wind, from Middle English poupen to make a gulping sound, of imitative origin

Verb (2)

origin unknown

Noun (2)

Middle English, from Anglo-French pope, from Latin puppis

Noun (3)

perhaps from poop entry 2

First Known Use

Verb (1)

1882, in the meaning defined above

Noun (1)

circa 1890, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Verb (2)

1927, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Noun (2)

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Verb (3)

1727, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (3)

circa 1911, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing poop

• poop deck
• poop out

Rhymes for poop

• coop
• coupe
• croup
• droop
• drupe
• dupe
• group
• hoop
• loop
• lupe
• oop
• roop

Kids Definition

poop

noun

ˈpüp

: an enclosed raised structure at the stern of a ship