"take a shit" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-take a shit.ogg [Australia] Forms: takes a shit [present, singular, third-person], taking a shit [participle, present], took a shit [past], taken a shit [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> a shit}} take a shit (third-person singular simple present takes a shit, present participle taking a shit, simple past took a shit, past participle taken a shit)
  1. (idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar
    Sense id: en-take_a_shit-en-verb-U4VrBKOp
  2. (idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, UK) To fail or malfunction. Tags: UK, colloquial, idiomatic, vulgar Categories (topical): Bodily functions, Feces Synonyms (to fail): crap out
    Sense id: en-take_a_shit-en-verb-EQpNbigw Disambiguation of Bodily functions: 35 49 15 Disambiguation of Feces: 11 79 11 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 74 14 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 83 12 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 7 80 13 Disambiguation of English predicates: 21 58 21 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 6 83 11 Disambiguation of 'to fail': 0 98 2
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, a, shit. Synonyms (to shit): defecate
    Sense id: en-take_a_shit-en-verb-26CzRl1M Disambiguation of 'to shit': 0 0 100

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for take a shit meaning in All languages combined (3.6kB)

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