exclamation, noun, verb, adjective
exclamation (!!!, slang) a swear word that many people find offensive, used to show that you are angry or annoyed:
Shit! I've lost my keys!
HELPNOTE Less offensive exclamations to use are blast, darn it (especially AmE), damn or (BrE) bother.
noun (!!!, slang)
1 [U] solid waste matter from the bowels
SYNEXCREMENT:
a pile of dog shit on the path
HELPNOTE A more polite way to express this example would be 'a pile of dog dirt'.
2 [sing.] an act of emptying solid waste matter from the bowels:
to have / need a shit
3 [U] stupid remarks or writing; nonsense:
You're talking shit! * She's so full of shit. * Don't give me that shit.
seealsoBULLSHIT
4 [C] (disapproving) an unpleasant person who treats other people badly:
He's an arrogant little shit.
5 [U] criticism or unfair treatment:
I'm not going to take any shit from them.
IDIOMS
beat, kick, etc. the shit out of sb to attack sb violently so that you injure them
in the shit
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for shit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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