plural poos
1
informal
: feces
It will please me no end to read about someone booked for leaving his dog's poo on a pavement or in some other public place.—
Alan John
Alan JohnCameron Diaz writes in The Body Book about inspecting your poo to monitor your health.—Lisa Freedman
Lisa Freedman2
informal
: the act of defecating
Kate has a giant Great Dane she brings everywhere. It takes a poo on Carly's floor.—Ty Burr
Ty Burr
pooed; pooing; poos
informal
: defecate
An Australian couple found themselves upstaged during their own wedding by their 3-year-old son, who interrupted the ceremony to announce: "I have to poo."—Ben Hooper
Ben HooperWhen proper citizens of Rome were lowering their bottoms onto indoor toilet seats, my ancestors were using the woods to do their business. I suspect they just squatted and pooed without the benefit of a hole.—Jim Jones
Jim Jonesˌpü,
ˈpü
US, informal
—used to suggest that something is small, unimportant, or childish in some way
cutesy-poo
Examples of poo in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebJacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
The week will be chock-full of unique events and pop-ups, featuring interactive experiences, intimate performances, and even giant inflatable poo!
—Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
But maybe better there than a slicer table and under the slicer (10 droppings) and a wood shelf over food storage (five easy pieces of poo).
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
Further study is needed to tease out exactly what makes for a successful poo mimic—perhaps there’s a maximum size for a convincing simulated splat or an ideal ratio of white spots to background color.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
It’s been a wonderful, bleary-eyed week full of love and kindness and extraordinary poo.
—Anna Myers, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
The caterpillar poo, meanwhile, was the ideal complement to sakura and benifuki green tea.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2023
Period poo is one of those things no one talks about much, but so many people experience.
—Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2021
But the Embarrassment, singular, which is like, what… a poo stain, premature ejaculation, turning up at your daughter’s wedding drunk?
—Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 15 June 2023
Kelly Conaboy, The Atlantic, 26 July 2023
Logan comes to just in time to hear the deal news and baselessly poo poo it.
—Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2021
Is blood in dog poo an emergency?
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
Must be nice to have poo with a view.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
Perhaps up to one-third of people believe that coffee triggers an urge to poo for them, and some experiments confirm that drinking coffee promotes activity in the distal gut (i.e., colon and rectum), at least in a subset of people.
—Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 29 Sep. 2020
Burps and poo from ruminating animals such as cattle, sheep and goats generate methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in warming the planet in the span of 20 years, the UN Environment Programme said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 15 Nov. 2022
JJ Goode uses rich and beautiful language to contemplate his subject matter: poo.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2022
If the kids do well, the log will poo out presents or sweets, so that when the blanket is removed, gifts will appear.
—Lorraine Allen, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2020
Noun
Disappearing act But what if your poo could, for the most part, disappear from your toilet?
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
The week will be chock-full of unique events and pop-ups, featuring interactive experiences, intimate performances, and even giant inflatable poo!
—Matt Tighe, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
But maybe better there than a slicer table and under the slicer (10 droppings) and a wood shelf over food storage (five easy pieces of poo).
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
Further study is needed to tease out exactly what makes for a successful poo mimic—perhaps there’s a maximum size for a convincing simulated splat or an ideal ratio of white spots to background color.
—Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
It’s been a wonderful, bleary-eyed week full of love and kindness and extraordinary poo.
—Anna Myers, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
The caterpillar poo, meanwhile, was the ideal complement to sakura and benifuki green tea.
—Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 17 July 2023
Period poo is one of those things no one talks about much, but so many people experience.
—Mirel Zaman, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2021
But the Embarrassment, singular, which is like, what… a poo stain, premature ejaculation, turning up at your daughter’s wedding drunk?
—Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 15 June 2023
Verb
Read: Dog poo, an environmental tragedy Menin shared with me a recent study in which researchers found an average of 31,000 fecal bacteria per 100 milliliters of puddle water from New York City’s sidewalks.
—Kelly Conaboy, The Atlantic, 26 July 2023
Logan comes to just in time to hear the deal news and baselessly poo poo it.
—Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2021
Is blood in dog poo an emergency?
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2022
Must be nice to have poo with a view.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
Perhaps up to one-third of people believe that coffee triggers an urge to poo for them, and some experiments confirm that drinking coffee promotes activity in the distal gut (i.e., colon and rectum), at least in a subset of people.
—Patrick Wilson, Outside Online, 29 Sep. 2020
Burps and poo from ruminating animals such as cattle, sheep and goats generate methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in warming the planet in the span of 20 years, the UN Environment Programme said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 15 Nov. 2022
JJ Goode uses rich and beautiful language to contemplate his subject matter: poo.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2022
If the kids do well, the log will poo out presents or sweets, so that when the blanket is removed, gifts will appear.
—Lorraine Allen, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2020
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