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Meaning of POOP

Pronunciation:  poop

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the rear part of a ship
  2. [n]  slang terms for inside information; "is that the straight dope?"
  3. [n]  a stupid foolish person
  4. [n]  obscene terms for feces
 
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 Synonyms: after part, crap, dirt, dope, low-down, nincompoop, ninny, quarter, shit, shite, stern, tail, the skinny, turd
 
 See Also: back, BM, dejection, details, escutcheon, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, inside information, ordure, rear, ship, simple, simpleton, skeg, stool

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Poop\, n. (Arch.)
    See 2d {Poppy}.
    
  2. \Poop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Pooping}.] [Cf. D. poepen. See {Pop}.]
    To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
    
  3. \Poop\, n. [F. poupe; cf. Sp. & Pg. popa, It. poppa; all
    fr. L. puppis.] (Naut.)
    A deck raised above the after part of a vessel; the hindmost
    or after part of a vessel's hull; also, a cabin covered by
    such a deck. See {Poop deck}, under {Deck}. See also
    {Roundhouse}.
          With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. --Dryden.
          The poop was beaten gold.                --Shak.
    
  4. \Poop\, v. t. (Naut.)
    (a) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. ``A sea which
        he thought was going to poop her.'' --Lord Dufferin.
    (b) To strike in the stern, as by collision.
    
 
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