as in dirt
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal
the only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night
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Recent Examples of droppings
Brake dust and bird droppings led to the arrest of an Eastpointe man in the shooting of a Macomb Township businessman and gas station owner outside of his home.
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Christina Hall, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Inspectors found six more rodent droppings near the candy shelf and behind the cookies on a bottom shelf.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
On cardboard, near storage with boxes of plastic bottles of water and boxes of coffee, sat at least 20 more rodent droppings.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
The top targets are often pickup trucks, which are bigger and therefore offer more surface area for droppings.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
The episode culminates in a sprint to the limousine, overcoming hazards such as moving obstacles, water attacks and even pigeon droppings.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Christina Hall, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Inspectors found six more rodent droppings near the candy shelf and behind the cookies on a bottom shelf.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
The place was a dump, with paint chipping from the ceilings, floors slanted at strange angles, rodent droppings situated along the floorboards, and paper-thin walls that welcomed in bitter winter air.
—Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
On cardboard, near storage with boxes of plastic bottles of water and boxes of coffee, sat at least 20 more rodent droppings.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
The top targets are often pickup trucks, which are bigger and therefore offer more surface area for droppings.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
The episode culminates in a sprint to the limousine, overcoming hazards such as moving obstacles, water attacks and even pigeon droppings.
—Ed Meza, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droppings
Noun
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Maybe this was not just White House dirt but Roosevelt-era dirt.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
25 Oct. 2025
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The vacuum can effectively suck up dirt, debris, and pet hair from all floor types, including hard floors, carpets, and area rugs.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Rodents left dung pieces in the bun storage area (over 25); dry storage shelves (over 10); the front counter cabinet where the soda machine equipment is (over 10); and behind the air conditioning unit on the second floor (over 20).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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Or that tossed off, scrapped, relegated to the dung heap of failed work, the unconscious keeps turning and turning the deep images and obsessions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Derby County had done the same 24 hours earlier, leaving Norwich, Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday as the remaining clubs yet to triumph on home soil.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The primary sources of heavy metal contamination in the cow’s environment, said Akinleye, are feed, water and soil.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The president prefers posting AI slop videos of himself dumping excrement on city-dwellers than working for them.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Sheep’s wool is also highly damaging to vital river systems, as excrement from the UK’s 31 million sheep and chemical sheep dips run into waterways, causing suffocating eutrophication.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Under that metal rack with rodent poop, there was standing water.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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Advanced spectroscopy sensors and a validated machine-learning algorithm in the device scan your poop for indicators of gut health and hydration, and also look for blood in the toilet bowl that might otherwise be hard to spot.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Teig came upon piles of green scat, a telltale sign that an animal was close by.—
Devon O’Neil,
Outside,
15 Oct. 2025
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Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.—
Nolan Finley,
Twin Cities,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Droppings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droppings. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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