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Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2023
Some residents of cities are not happy to share their neighborhoods with congregations of flying foxes, which can be noisy at dusk and dawn, and generate lots of poop.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
Customs agents seized and destroyed a box of giraffe poop at a Minnesota airport after a woman brought the feces to the U.S. from Kenya, officials said Thursday.
—Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2023
An owner ran to scoop an errant poop from the artificial turf with the intensity of a US Open ball boy.
—Lauren Smiley, WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
There are 1,700 toilets and an unbelievable number of people in line for their pre-race poop.
—Talya Minsberg, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
Other recent Katy Perry activities include: performing with a poop emoji at her Vegas residency, posing with a bale of hay to promote her shoe line, and singing in a bathroom.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2023
The pair also posed with a bottle of wine and a prop of fake poop, seemingly referencing one of the more disturbing incidents from last year’s defamation trial.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
In the study, people were randomly selected to receive a poop transplant immediately after getting a kidney, or a poop transplant later on if their stool samples showed positive signs of antibiotic-resistant bacteria after day 36.
—Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
Francyne Zeltser, Parents, 29 Oct. 2023
Ulcerative colitis is a condition that causes bloody stool, abdominal pain, and frequent urges to poop.
—Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
In recent years, other TikTok trends have shown adults pulling pranks on their children, including pretending to smear poop on their kids or throwing cheese on their baby’s face.
—Victoria Bisset, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Aug. 2023
One scene where Lil Nas X rants about needing to poop before a show will leave you laughing like a kid hearing a fart joke for the first time.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 11 Sep. 2023
Dogs bring another not-so-welcome addition to the neighborhood: poop.
—Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 Aug. 2023
More serious cases of TD—those that involve bloody diarrhea or more than three watery poops a day—may require a course of antibiotics to get your bowels back on track.
—Julia Ries, SELF, 13 Sep. 2023
Improving your sleep quality may help prevent waking up at night to poop.
—Sara Coughlin, Health, 10 Aug. 2023
Have at least two weeks' worth of food and water, litter for cats, and poop bags for dogs.
Make sure to have copies of pets' medical records, which include vaccination status for rabies and other diseases.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
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Word History
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
Verb (1)
circa 1903, 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 1940, in the meaning defined above
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“Poop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poop. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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