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poop

intj · noun · verb · 24 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • /ˈpuːp/
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  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -uːp
  • CMU ARPABET: P UW1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Expressing annoyed disappointment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: childish, euphemistic

Examples

  • Poop. The copier's broken again.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Fecal matter; feces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, uncountable

Examples

  • The dog poop is on the grass.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boo-boo, boom-boom, BM, bowel movement, caca, cack, chocolate, chocolate hot dog, crap, crud, danna, dejection, dirt, do do, doo-doo, doody, dook, dookie, dooky, droppings, dump, dumplings, dung, Eartha, Eartha Kitt, excrement, faeces, faex, fecal matter, feces, flop, fudge, gong, ish, jobby, merd, muck, nature, number two, ordure, poo, pooh, poop, poopie, poo-poo, poopy, pure, purging, scat, sharn, shit, shite, soil, stool, thost, tom tit, turd, waste

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An act of defecation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, informal, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The sound of a steam engine's whistle, typically low-pitched.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Ellipsis of YouTube poop (“video mashup”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A set of data or general information, written or spoken, usually concerning machinery or a process.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • Here’s the info paper with the poop on that carburetor.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The rear part (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: nautical, transport

Examples

  • Holonyms: watercraft < vessel
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:poop.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stern, aft

Antonyms: bow, stem, forestem, fore, prow, prore

8

noun

Meaning 8

The poop deck.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: nautical, transport

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A stupid or ineffectual person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bum, couch potato, dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught, do-nothing, dosser, idler, idleton, faineant, flaneur, footler, get-nothing, good-for-nothing, goldbricker, goof-off, lallygag, lollygagger, laggard, layabout, lazy ass, lazybones, lazy louse, lidderon, lie-abed, loafer, loiter-sack, lounge lizard, lounger, morepork, ne'er-do-well, poop, ragabash, shirker, skiver, slacker, slob, slow belly, slug, slugabed, slug-a-bed, slugabug, sluggabed, sluggard, sofa spud, tarrier, truant, wasteman, waster, wastrel

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A poppyhead finial seen on church pews and occasionally on other types of seating benches.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Alternative letter-case form of poop (“video mashup”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To make a short blast on a horn.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: toot

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To break wind.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: badger, blow off, break ass, break wind, bust ass, crepitate, curmur, cut one, cut one loose, cut the cheese, drop a bomb, drop one's guts, fart, flatulate, grunt, guff, let fluffy off the chain, let loose, let one go, let one loose, let one rip, let rip, pass gas, pass wind, poop, poot, pump, rip ass, rip one, squeeze one out, step on a duck, step on a frog, toot, trump

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To defecate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, intransitive

Examples

  • His horse pooped right in the middle of the parade.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, excrementize, feceate, have a shit, move one's bowels, pinch a loaf, pinch one off, poo, pooh, poop, sharn, shart, shiss, shit, shite, stool, take a dump, take a shit, take a crap, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, uncoil, void one's bowels

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To defecate.

To defecate in or on something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, intransitive, transitive

Examples

  • You might want a spare change of underwear in case you poop your pants.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, excrementize, feceate, have a shit, move one's bowels, pinch a loaf, pinch one off, poo, pooh, poop, sharn, shart, shiss, shit, shite, stool, take a dump, take a shit, take a crap, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, uncoil, void one's bowels

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To defecate.

To defecate on one's person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, intransitive, reflexive

Examples

  • You'll poop yourself if you have to walk all five miles home without stopping.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boo-boo, cack, choke a darkie, crap, defecate, do one's ease, ease oneself, do a number two, do one's easement, drite, drop a bomb, drop a chalupa, drop a deuce, drop anchor, drop the kids off at the pool, dung, excrementize, feceate, have a shit, move one's bowels, pinch a loaf, pinch one off, poo, pooh, poop, sharn, shart, shiss, shit, shite, stool, take a dump, take a shit, take a crap, take the Browns to the Super Bowl, uncoil, void one's bowels

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To tire, exhaust.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • I'm pooped from working so hard.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beleaguer, exhaust, fatigue, fordo, do for, gas out, get down, jade, knock up, poop, run someone ragged, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, weary

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

(with out) To become tired and exhausted.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: reflexive

Examples

  • He pooped out a few strides from the finish line.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: poop out

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To break seawater with the poop (stern) of a vessel, especially the poop deck.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To break over the stern of (a vessel).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • We were pooped within hailing of the quay and were nearly sunk.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

noun

Meaning 21

the rear part of a ship

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: stern, after part, quarter, tail

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rear, back

22

noun

Meaning 22

slang terms for inside information

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • is that the straight dope?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dope, the skinny, low-down

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: details, inside information

23

noun

Meaning 23

a stupid foolish person

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nincompoop, ninny

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: simpleton, simple

24

noun

Meaning 24

obscene terms for feces

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crap, dirt, shit, shite, turd

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection

History

Etymology

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.

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).

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”.

Uncertain, perhaps a shortening of nincompoop.

Likely from French poupe; see poppyhead.

Uncertain, perhaps sound imitation.

Across languages

Translations

153 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: poef — feces
  • Arabic: بُرَاز (burāz) — feces
  • Arabic: كَاكَا (kākā) — feces
  • Arabic: خَرَاء (ḵarāʔ) — feces
  • Arabic: خِرَاء (ḵirāʔ) — feces
  • Arabic: خرا (ḵara) — feces
  • Arabic: ككة (kakka) — feces
  • Armenian: քխիկ (kʻxik) — feces
  • Armenian: ախկո (axko) — feces
  • Assamese: হগা (hoga) — feces
  • Assamese: গু (gu) — feces
  • Bengali: হাগু (hagu) — feces
  • Breton: kakac'h — feces
  • Catalan: caca — feces
  • Catalan: femta — feces
  • Chinese Cantonese: 屎 (si2) — feces
  • Chinese Cantonese: 便便 — feces
  • Chinese Mandarin: 大便 (dàbiàn) — feces
  • Chinese Mandarin: 便便 (biānbiān) — feces
  • Danish: bæ — feces
  • Dutch: poep — feces
  • Estonian: kaka — feces
  • Finnish: kakka — feces
  • French: caca — feces
  • French: popo — feces
  • Galician: caca — feces
  • Galician: popó — feces
  • Georgian: განავალი (ganavali) — feces
  • Georgian: კაკა (ḳaḳa) — feces
  • German: Kacke — feces
  • Greek: κακά (kaká) — feces
  • Hebrew: קָקִי (kaki) — feces
  • Hebrew: קָקָה (kaka) — feces
  • Hindi: टट्टी (ṭaṭṭī) — feces
  • Hindi: मल (mal) — feces
  • Hindi: गू (gū) — feces
  • Hindi: गूह (gūh) — feces
  • Hindi: गुह (guh) — feces
  • Hindi: पाखाना (pākhānā) — feces
  • Hindi: विष्ठा (viṣṭhā) — feces
  • Hungarian: kaki — feces
  • Icelandic: kúkur — feces
  • Ingrian: kakka — feces
  • Interlingua: pupu — feces
  • Interlingua: caca — feces
  • Irish: cac — feces
  • Italian: cacca — feces
  • Japanese: うんち (unchi) — feces
  • Japanese: うんこ (unko) — feces
  • Korean: 응가 (eungga) — feces
  • Korean: 똥 (ttong) — feces
  • Central Kurdish: گوو (gû) — feces
  • Lao: ອຸດຈາຣະ (ʼut chā ra) — feces
  • Latin: faeces — feces
  • Macedonian: ка́ка (káka) — feces
  • Malay: tahi — feces
  • Marathi: शी (śī) — feces
  • Marathi: शीशी (śīśī) — feces
  • Old English: meox — feces
  • Pitjantjatjara: kuna — feces
  • Polish: kupa — feces
  • Polish: gówno — feces
  • Polish: kał — feces
  • Portuguese: totô — feces
  • Portuguese: cocô — feces
  • Portuguese: caquinha — feces
  • Romanian: caca — feces
  • Russian: кака́шка (kakáška) — feces
  • Russian: ка́ка (káka) — feces
  • Russian: кал (kal) — feces
  • Russian: фека́лии (fekálii) — feces
  • Russian: говно́ (govnó) — feces
  • Sanskrit: उच्चार (uccāra) — feces
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка́ка — feces
  • Serbo-Croatian: káka — feces
  • Spanish: popo — feces
  • Spanish: pupú — feces
  • Spanish: popó — feces
  • Swedish: bajs — feces
  • Sylheti: ꠀꠉꠣ (aga) — feces
  • Tagalog: jebs — feces
  • Tagalog: pupu — feces
  • Tagalog: ebak — feces
  • Thai: อุจจาระ (ùt-jaa-rá) — feces
  • Turkish: kaka — feces
  • Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — feces
  • Ukrainian: лайно́ (lajnó) — feces
  • Vietnamese: phân — feces
  • Finnish: tuut — low-pitch sound of a whistle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tut — low-pitch sound of a whistle
  • Russian: пуп (pup) — video mashup
  • Finnish: vätys — slothful person
  • Finnish: laiskamato — slothful person
  • Finnish: laiskuri — slothful person
  • Finnish: töräyttää — to make a short blast
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tute — to make a short blast
  • Arabic: بَرَّزَ (barraza) — childish: to defecate
  • Arabic: تَغَوَّطَ (taḡawwaṭa) — childish: to defecate
  • Arabic: خري (ḵiri) — childish: to defecate
  • Assamese: হাগা (haga) — childish: to defecate
  • Assamese: হগা (hoga) — childish: to defecate
  • Bulgarian: а́кам (ákam) — childish: to defecate
  • Chinese Cantonese: 屙臭臭 (o1 cau3 cau3) — childish: to defecate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 拉屎 (lāshǐ) — childish: to defecate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 屙屎 (ēshǐ, āshǐ) — childish: to defecate
  • Czech: kakat — childish: to defecate
  • Danish: lave bæ — childish: to defecate
  • Dutch: poepen — childish: to defecate
  • Estonian: kakama — childish: to defecate
  • Estonian: kakima — childish: to defecate
  • Finnish: kakata — childish: to defecate
  • French: faire caca — childish: to defecate
  • French: faire popo — childish: to defecate
  • Galician: facer caca — childish: to defecate
  • Galician: facer popó — childish: to defecate
  • German: kacken — childish: to defecate
  • German: käckern — childish: to defecate
  • German: Aa machen — childish: to defecate
  • Greek: κάνω κακά (káno kaká) — childish: to defecate
  • Hungarian: kakil — childish: to defecate
  • Icelandic: kúka — childish: to defecate
  • Irish: déan cac — childish: to defecate
  • Japanese: うんちをする (unchi-o surú) — childish: to defecate
  • Japanese: うんちする (unchi suru) — childish: to defecate
  • Japanese: うんこする (unko suru) — childish: to defecate
  • Khmer: អ៊ឺអ៊ឺស (ʼɨɨʼɨɨh) — childish: to defecate
  • Korean: 똥을 누다 (ttong'eul nuda) — childish: to defecate
  • Central Kurdish: گوو کردن (gû kirdin) — childish: to defecate
  • Central Kurdish: دەس بەئاوگەیاندن (des be'awgeyandin) — childish: to defecate
  • Latin: cacare — childish: to defecate
  • Latin: cacō — childish: to defecate
  • Macedonian: ка́ка (káka) — childish: to defecate
  • Marathi: शी करणे (śī karṇe) — childish: to defecate
  • Marathi: हगणे (hagṇe) — childish: to defecate
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bæsje — childish: to defecate
  • Polish: załatwiać się — childish: to defecate
  • Polish: robić kupę — childish: to defecate
  • Polish: kakać — childish: to defecate
  • Portuguese: fazer cocô — childish: to defecate
  • Romanian: face caca — childish: to defecate
  • Russian: ка́кать (kákatʹ) — childish: to defecate
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка́кити — childish: to defecate
  • Serbo-Croatian: ка̏кати — childish: to defecate
  • Serbo-Croatian: kákiti — childish: to defecate
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȁkati — childish: to defecate
  • Spanish: hacer popó — childish: to defecate
  • Swedish: bajsa — childish: to defecate
  • Ottoman Turkish: صیچمق (sıçmak) — childish: to defecate
  • Vietnamese: ỉa — childish: to defecate
  • Finnish: väsähtää — to tire, exhaust
  • Hungarian: kifáraszt — to tire, exhaust
  • Hungarian: kimerít — to tire, exhaust
  • Hungarian: kidögleszt — to tire, exhaust