Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
(countable, informal, uncountable) An act of defecation.
‘I’m goin’ down the backyard for me mornin’ poop.’ 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 8:
(countable, uncountable) The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.
Two minutes passed - five - seven - ten. "Poop! Poop!" Everyone knew that whistle, and a mighty cheer went up as the Queen's train glided into the station. 2001, Rev. W. Awdry, Thomas the tank engine collection : a unique collection of stories from the railway series - p. 157 - Egmont Books, Limited, Aug 15, 2001:
The resulting video (called a “poop”) subverts its original content by slicing and dicing the video and audio, adding visual effects, and mashing several videos into one. 2012 November 3, Brad Evan Rosen, “YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community – by “William A – YLT2012””, in Yale Law Tech:
And nobody really set out to design YTP to work this way—only a fraction of YTPs ever succeed in releasing enough neurochemicals, and those are the videos that get elevated and then remixed into a new round of poops. 2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes:
Uncertain, possibly from Middle English poupen (“to make a gulping sound while drinking, blow on a horn, toot”). Compare Dutch poepen (“to defecate”), German Low German pupen (“to fart; break wind”). Also representing poo pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end.
Meanings
(intransitive, obsolete) To make a short blast on a horn.
(intransitive, obsolete) To break wind.
(informal, intransitive) To defecate.
His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.
(informal, intransitive, transitive) To defecate. ▸ To defecate in or on something.
You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.
(informal, intransitive, reflexive) To defecate. ▸ To defecate on one's person.
You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.
el κάνω κακά (childish: to defecate) · ckb دەس بەئاوگەیاندن (childish: to defecate) · bg а́кам (childish: to defecate) · la cacare (childish: to defecate) · cmn 拉屎 (childish: to defecate) · as হগা (childish: to defecate) · ja うんちをする (childish: to defecate) · pl robić kupę (childish: to defecate) · ga déan cac (childish: to defecate) · ru ка́кать (childish: to defecate) · ro face caca (childish: to defecate) · hu kakil (childish: to defecate) · de Aa machen (childish: to defecate) · ota صیچمق (childish: to defecate) · es hacer popó (childish: to defecate) · ja うんこする (childish: to defecate) · pt fazer cocô (childish: to defecate) · nb bæsje (childish: to defecate) · de kacken (childish: to defecate) · sh kákiti (childish: to defecate) · ko 똥을 누다 (childish: to defecate) · fr faire popo (childish: to defecate) · ar تَغَوَّطَ (childish: to defecate) · mk ка́ка (childish: to defecate) · km អ៊ឺអ៊ឺស (childish: to defecate) · ja うんちする (childish: to defecate) · nl poepen (childish: to defecate) · as হাগা (childish: to defecate) · vi ỉa (childish: to defecate) · gl facer popó (childish: to defecate) · mr हगणे (childish: to defecate) · da lave bæ (childish: to defecate) · ckb گوو کردن (childish: to defecate) · mr शी करणे (childish: to defecate) · et kakama (childish: to defecate) · gl facer caca (childish: to defecate) · is kúka (childish: to defecate) · fi kakata (childish: to defecate) · sv bajsa (childish: to defecate) · et kakima (childish: to defecate) · acw خري (childish: to defecate) · fr faire caca (childish: to defecate) · pl załatwiać się (childish: to defecate) · sh kȁkati (childish: to defecate) · la cacō (childish: to defecate) · nb tute (to make a short blast) · yue 屙臭臭 (childish: to defecate) · pl kakać (childish: to defecate) · ar بَرَّزَ (childish: to defecate) · fi töräyttää (to make a short blast) · sh ка́кити (childish: to defecate) · cs kakat (childish: to defecate) · cmn 屙屎 (childish: to defecate) · sh ка̏кати (childish: to defecate) · de käckern (childish: to defecate)
Recorded in World War II (1941) Army slang poop sheet (“up-to-date information”), itself of uncertain origin, perhaps toilet paper (referring to etymology 1).
Meanings
(uncountable) A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.
Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.
If Exxon has already made a find, and someone knows about it, they'd be the most likely to be directing the show. We just need to discover who has ties to the D.O.F and is close enough to Exxon to have the inside poop. 2002, J. Sander, Runoff, page 236:
From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
Meanings
(countable, uncountable) The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.
Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.
(countable, uncountable) The poop deck.
Omens thicken upon us […] Next, the stumbling of the King whenas he went upon the poop of the long ship which bare us on this voyage to these islands. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 18:
From Middle English poupe, pope, from Old French pope, poupe, pouppe, from Italian poppa, from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin puppis, all meaning “stern of a ship”.
Meanings
(transitive) To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.
(transitive) To break over the stern of (a vessel).
Another night, as we were scudding before a heavy gale of wind, and a tremendous sea rolling after us, we had the misfortune to be pooped, as the phrase is, by a wave or sea striking our stern, which stove in the cabin-windows, and rushing impetuously through the cabin, and along the main-deck, bore down all before it. 1819, James Hardy Vaux, chapter 18, in Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux, volume 1, page 207:
We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.
Pooping is a hazard of another nature, and is also peculiar to the process of scudding. It merely means the ship's being overtaken by waters while running from them, when the crest of a sea, broken by the resistance, is thrown inboard over the taffrail or quarter. 1838, Robert Walsh, The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art: Volume 33, page 376:
They talk about art, and think us such poops for dressing in the evening. 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths. 1976, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 48, in Slapstick, Delacorte Press, page 224: