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shit

1. verb, vulgar slang To defecate. You'll have to go shit in the woods while we're camping.

2. verb, vulgar slang To defecate while in (something). I couldn't reach a toilet in time and ended up shitting my pants. She was so drunk that she shat the bed in her sleep.

3. verb, vulgar slang To fool, deceive, or trick (someone). Usually used to express disbelief. We have to come in and work on Saturday, too? You've got to be shitting me! I promise I'm not shitting you—these figures are very real.

4. noun, vulgar slang Feces. Someone smeared shit all over the bathroom walls.

5. noun, vulgar slang An act or instance of defecation. I need to go take a shit.

6. noun, rude slang Something utterly untrue or wildly exaggerated. Don't give me that shit, Tom. I know you've been taking money from the register. Her entire speech was just a load of shit from start to finish.

7. noun, rude slang Ridiculous nonsense. Used to express frustration, exasperation, or disgust. You mean we have to come in to work on Saturday, too? God, what a bunch of shit! This is such shit! The teacher marked me down a whole letter grade just because I used 14-point font on my essay.

8. noun, rude slang Useless, worthless, or undesirable items. I've got so much shit cluttering up my office right now. Will you please go up and clear all that shit out of the attic this weekend? I can't believe they charged $20 for this shit. It broke after less than a week!

9. noun, rude slang A despicable, contemptible, or worthless person. Their son is such a little shit. I've never met such a nasty kid in my life. I'm willing to bet that lazy shit hasn't finished his part of the project yet.

10. noun, rude slang Something harmful to a person, such as drugs or chemicals. How long has Tom been using that shit? We've got to get him into rehab! You don't want to know how much shit they put into the processed food we eat.

11. noun, rude slang Completely worthless or unenjoyable. What a shit play. The writing was awful, the acting was atrocious, and it was so boring that I nearly fell asleep halfway through!

12. interjection, rude slang An exclamation of anger, indignation, irritation, or exasperation. A: "Shit!" B: "What happened?" A: "I dropped my plate and it smashed on the ground!" The motor just burnt out on this mower again! Shit!

13. interjection, rude slang Used to intensify or punctuate any extreme emotion, whether positive or negative. A: "I think the boss found out about the missing money." B: "Oh shit, oh shit! What am I going to do?" This burger is delicious! Shit, I've never had such a tasty burger in my life! A: "Why do you think this is happening?" B: "Shit, I don't know!"

shit (oneself)

1. rude slang Literally, to defecate while still wearing one's clothing. I need you to pull over the car right now, or else I'm going to shit myself!

2. rude slang By extension, to be very surprised. When I saw that the magazine had published my letter to the editor, I practically shit myself!

the shit

rude slang Very good, excellent, cool, etc. Man, that album is the shit! I can't believe you haven't listened to it yet, it's so good! I'm so sick of these dumb football players who think they're the shit and walk around like they own the school.

shit

1. n. dung; feces. (Usually objectionable. Colloquial. Objectionable for many people. See the complete list of all entries with shit in the Index of Hidden Key Words.) Gee! I stepped in some shit!

2. in. to defecate. (Usually objectionable.) This dog needs to shit. Take it for a walk.

3. n. any trash or unwanted material; junk; clutter. (Usually objectionable.) Clean up this shit and don’t let this place get so messy.

4. n. a wretched person; a despised person. (Rude and derogatory.) You stupid shit! Look what you did!

5. n. one’s personal belongings. (see also get one’s shit together. Usually objectionable.) I gotta get my shit from the kitchen and get outa here.

6. n. lies; nonsense. (From bullshit. Usually objectionable.) All I ever hear out of you is shit.

7. tv. to deceive someone; to lie to someone. Stop shittin’ me, you bastard!

8. n. drugs, especially heroin or marijuana. (Usually objectionable.) You are going to have to get off this shit or you’re gonna die.

9. exclam. a general expression of disgust. (Usually Shit! Usually objectionable.) Oh, shit! What a mess!

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References in periodicals archive

The nation's former top cop admitted that it was wrong for him to say "shit happens" over the incident but clarified that what he meant was that police operations are not perfect.

Bato sorry for 'shit happens' remark, says it again anyway

Now they're kind of harder to find because people are buying them and shit.

JOHN SHANAHAN

But what's hella funny is Kendrick heard me saying "CTE!" Ain't that their shit? No it ain't CTE, that's Jeezy's shit!

Funk town: Ezale righteously carries Oakland's history, even when he's out of his mind

Like shit, crap can also by modified endlessly to distinguish different stripes and types of crap.

Holy crapola!

In short, speakers have no means of avoiding mergers either ante hoc (by prolepsis) or post hoc, and therefore the non-appearance of homophones in ModE shit and shut cannot have been caused by the need to avoid the merger because there was no means of preventing it in the first place.

The temporary merger of OE scitan and scyttan, or: a case of harmless homophony

That would be cool so I can see him skate and shit.

Passing the torch: Ishod Wair

So prepare yourself for the following TV advert: "This isn't just dog shit, it's hand-picked Marks & Spencer King Charles cavalier spaniel dog shit."

BrianReade: Cook a poodle poo

Yes, that's my shit. Check it out, we grew up with Alice Cooper, The Stooges and MC5.

Negative approach

I'm pretty sure those things shit all over the place, so that's gonna be the shit.

Lizard King: that's my shit

One could hardly have staged the encounter between artistic antipodes better: K., an artist who, with a single work, derived from a single "concept" heavily inspired by an early-twentieth-century logico-philosophical text, became world renowned and who has been engaged ever since with formal variants on the same theme; Roth, who never trusted any "good idea" or concept in his polymorphic work-in-progress; K., the prototype of the artist who paints with philosophemes, always for the salon; Roth, the angry philosopher and poet, who, driven by angst, lust, and melancholy, in the face of the sheer transitory thingliness of the world, cannot free himself, above all not from the material in the sense of "Complete Shit."

Content and formula

Just trying to innovate and do some cool shit. Just trying to stay true to the art.

100s

As George himself suggests to Carter Ratcliff in a 1986 interview, the pictures, despite being "extremely handmade, laboured objects," do indeed look as if they "had been shot out of our brains, on to the paper like magic." I saw their message, but filtered it out, preferring instead to absorb my salutary doses of sex, shit, booze, squalor, and class-consciousness from Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

The Words of Gilbert and George