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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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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Recent Examples of poop
Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Creators are telling followers to look them up on Instagram and YouTube. (paywall)
Some medicines are made from poop.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2024
Each transaction, in or out, adds to the number of poops.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
All of that poop was extensively analyzed by researchers and used to build food webs showing what the emerging dinosaur species were eating and how their diet evolved.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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Two men from New York have died after using bat poop as a fertilizer to grow cannabis.
—Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
Creators are telling followers to look them up on Instagram and YouTube. (paywall)
Some medicines are made from poop.
—Melvin Backman, Quartz, 10 Dec. 2024
Each transaction, in or out, adds to the number of poops.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
All of that poop was extensively analyzed by researchers and used to build food webs showing what the emerging dinosaur species were eating and how their diet evolved.
—Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2024
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 15 Jan. 2025.
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