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as in dung
solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal the mother cat carefully cleaned poop off her newborn kitten's bottom

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noun (2)

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as in scoop
information not generally available to the public the poop was that the ship would be headed to the war zone within a matter of weeks

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One reader emailed us to emphatically declare Andrew the worst, citing its homeless population, garbage and bird poop. Isabelle Friedman, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 Want the poop on this pathetic history? Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025 Wag bags – short for waste aggregation and gelling – are used to pack out poop. B. Derrick Taff, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2025 Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park is dealing with an overload of human poop in wilderness areas, and park officials are considering installing a permanent toilet in at least one backcountry area to deal with the problem. Owen Clarke, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for poop

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“Poop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poop. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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