as in dung
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal
the mother cat carefully cleaned poop off her newborn kitten's bottom
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as in scoop
information not generally available to the public
the poop was that the ship would be headed to the war zone within a matter of weeks
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Everything comes out of one all-purpose hole called the cloaca in a chunky white paste that’s both poop and pee combined.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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
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The 1964 discovery of the leftover glow from the Big Bang was initially thought to be from bird poop.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Everything comes out of one all-purpose hole called the cloaca in a chunky white paste that’s both poop and pee combined.
—Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2025
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
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“Poop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poop. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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