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
Health inspectors gave the chicken restaurant a yellow placard after spotting five old rodent droppings on the unused bus tubs, and gnaw marks on food trays that were holding bait blocks in the side of the dry storage room by the kitchen’s restroom.
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Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Two Fort Worth restaurants had high demerit scores, and roaches and rodent droppings were found at others, according to recent inspection reports.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
Slugs also may leave behind blackish fecal droppings.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
People cleaning up rodent nests or droppings, inside or outside, should wear gloves and use a bleach solution or disinfectant.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
Cans of food on a kitchen shelf were dotted with 30 droppings and another 10 were on a kitchen window ledge.
—David J. Neal
updated August 22, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Pollen, dead bugs, bird droppings and tree sap can be a nuisance, too.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Dogs could also ingest intestinal parasites, such as roundworms or hookworms, left from animal droppings.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Two Fort Worth restaurants had high demerit scores, and roaches and rodent droppings were found at others, according to recent inspection reports.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Aug. 2025
Slugs also may leave behind blackish fecal droppings.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2025
People cleaning up rodent nests or droppings, inside or outside, should wear gloves and use a bleach solution or disinfectant.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2025
Cans of food on a kitchen shelf were dotted with 30 droppings and another 10 were on a kitchen window ledge.
—David J. Neal
updated August 22, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
Pollen, dead bugs, bird droppings and tree sap can be a nuisance, too.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Dogs could also ingest intestinal parasites, such as roundworms or hookworms, left from animal droppings.
—Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droppings
Noun
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After more than an hour on the road, the team arrived at a cluster of trailers behind a long dirt path on a grower’s property in South Haven, tight quarters where farmworkers rest after long-hour shifts picking fruit under the Michigan sun.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Freep.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Sweep to get rid of any dirt or debris.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And like the wildebeest, bison dung packs a nutritional punch when deposited across the landscape.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
29 Aug. 2025
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Decades before Colorado’s best singers, dancers and actors graced the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in downtown Denver, workers pushed brooms across the stage to clean up elephant dung, rodeo sawdust, and blood spatters from boxing matches.—
John Wenzel,
Denver Post,
28 Aug. 2025
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Recalling the English folk motif of the tree as possessing healing powers, a clump of soil dug up from an orchard in Lothlórien is used to replenish the scoured Shire.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Israel has been engaged in a war with Gaza since a deadly 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli soil, which has seen ballistic missiles and rockets fired at the country.—
Brett Tingley,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
27 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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However, two more tests on the scat are needed for final confirmation from the Indonesian government.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
People.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Schaffer also details how the Super Mario Bros. theme was once part of Anderson's jazz scat scene.—
Staff Author,
EW.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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“Droppings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droppings. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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