piece of shit en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, slang, vulgar) A bad thing; an object of poor quality.
When Jerry speaks of “The worst piece of shit I ever read,” he is not speaking of the book, Great Balls of Fire, but of the script to the movie.
1989 August, Murray Silver, SPIN, page 10:Tech-savvy consumers are lining up today to be the first to purchase Sony's brand new stupid piece of shit that doesn't do the goddamn thing it's fucking supposed to.
2009, The Onion, 0:06 from the start, in Sony Releases Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work, spoken by Brandon Armstrong (Peak Kwinarian):This shirt is a piece of shit.
Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
1979, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”, performed by Monty Python:
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(derogatory, idiomatic, offensive, slang, vulgar) A despicable person.
And it takes the emphasis off of cruising and sexuality, and makes it more like kind of a party thing, and everybody feels comfortable, and nobody feels like "I'm a piece of shit 'cause I didn't get somebody tonight," and they don't feel so lonely.
1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan "Suki" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8:But then Zhao Jun switched to English and said, “I'll kick your face in, you piece of shit,” and it came out electric fluent, no one laughed. “How dare you call him a piece of shit?” the man's wife shrieked.
2010, Rachel DeWoskin, Foreign Babes in Beijing […] , W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 287:While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist.
2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 25 May 2023:I wanna dedicate this next one to an absolute piece of shit of a human being. The pronouns was/were. ‘Cos if you chat shit, you will get banged. Rest in piss, Charlie Kirk, you piece of shit.
2025 September 15, Poppy Burton, quoting Bobby Vylan, “Bob Vylan gig cancelled after venue say Charlie Kirk statements “go too far””, in NME, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2025:
- (vulgar) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, shit.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pieces of shit | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
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Translations (46)
it pezzo di merda (a despicable person) · fr fumier (a despicable person) · ro pielea pulii (a bad thing) · be хуйло́ (a despicable person) · fi paska (a despicable person) · fi kusipää (a despicable person) · fr saloperie (a bad thing) · ru кусо́к дерьма́ (a bad thing) · fr merde (a despicable person) · fr (de la) merde (a bad thing) · ro căcat cu ochi (a despicable person) · nl schoelje (a despicable person) · fi paska (a bad thing) · pl zasraniec (a despicable person) · fi paskiainen (a despicable person) · es pedazo de mierda (a despicable person) · fr sac à merde (a despicable person) · he חתיכת חרא (a bad thing) · id brengsek (a bad thing) · pt filho da puta (a despicable person) · ro un căcat (a bad thing) · pt porcaria (a bad thing) · id brengsek (a despicable person) · it cacata (a bad thing) · no dritt (a bad thing) · pl szmelc (a bad thing) · ru говню́к (a despicable person) · es mierda (a bad thing) · it pezzo di merda (a bad thing) · it cagata (a bad thing) · sv skithög (a bad thing) · sv skräphög (a bad thing) · fi paskapää (a despicable person) · yi שטיק דרעק (a despicable person) · fr sous-merde (a despicable person) · ru хуйло́ (a despicable person) · uk хуйло́ (a despicable person) · fr chierie (a bad thing) · no drittsekk (a despicable person) · fr pauvre merde (a despicable person) · id sampah (a bad thing) · sv skrothög (a bad thing) · pt monte de merda (a despicable person) · pt merda (a bad thing) · es pedazo de mierda (a bad thing) · ro pielea pulii (a despicable person)