shit

The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.

2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist:

(countable, uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.

(countable, colloquial, vulgar) The act of shitting.

Throw that shit out!

Get rid of that shit away!

Bring that shit to the disposal.

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.

I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.

Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.

How about wouldn't you take that shit off?

JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.

1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, California: New Line Cinema:

Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away

2001, “Zip City”, performed by Mike Cooley:

He’s physical and monosyllabic. He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it.

2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.

These grapes are the shit!

Those inhalers and injections was the shit.

Contact lenses is the shit.

When gangsters bump my shit, can they feel my hunger?

2003, “What Up Gangsta”, in Curtis Jackson, Rob Tewlow (lyrics), Reef Tewlow (music), Get Rich or Die Tryin', performed by 50 Cent, New York City: Shady Records:

(uncountable, colloquial, vulgar, definite, US) (the shit) The best of its kind.

jerk one's shit

How am I supposed to jerk my shit without taking off my clothes?

(uncountable, vulgar, slang) Genitalia, especially male.

Everything he says is a load of shit.

Enough of this shit!

Quit your shit!

What is this shit?

Aw, this shit again?

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.

Her son has been a real shit to her.

I am a shit and a rotter.

Get the fuck out of here you little shit!

(countable, vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.

We don’t have shit to live on. ― We don’t have anything to live on.

John can't sing for shit. ― John can't sing at all.

You ain't shit. ― You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.

Can't do shit to accomplish the objectives to inspect. ― Can't do for all; at all to accomplish the objectives to inspect.

They won't do shit for us to clean the house. ― They won't do nothing; weren't anything for us to clean the house.

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) (in negations) Anything.

I don't give a shit.

(countable, vulgar, colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.

I'm in some serious shit.

Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.

I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.

‘Now,’ he said, ‘if someone would close the curtains and light a joss-stick, I have here for your delight some twenty-four-carat black Nepalese cannabis resin which should be smoked immediately on account of it being seriously good shit.’

1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 20:

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).

I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?

(uncountable, slang, vulgar) Anything exceptional or remarkable.

en-noun

shit (usually uncountable, plural shits)

→ Dutch: shit m

→ French: shit m

→ Ilocano: shet

→ Kankanaey: shet

→ Pitcairn-Norfolk: shet

→ Swedish: shit

→ Tagalog: shet

stront

solid excretory product — see also feces, poo, stool

From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.


shit

What a shit film that was!

(vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.

That was a shit thing to do to him.

en-adj

shit (comparative shitter or more shit, superlative shittest or most shit)

shitter (comparative)
more shit (comparative)
shittest (superlative)
most shit (superlative)

shitter

see unskilled one sense and contemptible one sense


shit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.

(intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.

(transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.

I farted so hard I shat myself.

(transitive, reflexive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate on; to soil through defecating.

Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?

(transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.

I saw red and smashed a plate and a bowl. […] I swept up the mess. I bawled a lot as I swept […] I also thought, I am about to get my period. It absolutely shits me that this should explain anything.

1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 70:

(transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) To annoy.

en-verb

shit (third-person singular simple present shits, present participle shitting, simple past shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit, past participle shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit or shitten)

shits (present singular third-person)
shitting (participle present)
shat (past)
shitted (past rare)
shit (US past)
shat (participle past)
shitted (participle past rare)
shit (US participle past)
shitten (participle past)

you can't put the shit back in the horse

dhjes

to defecate — see also defecate, poo, poop

քաքել

vulgar: to excrete (something) through the anus

From Middle English schiten, shiten, from Old English sċītan, from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skéydt, from *skeyd-, *skeh₁i-d (“to cut”) (compare *skey-).
Cognate with West Frisian skite, Low German schieten, Dutch schijten, German scheißen, Danish skide. More at shed.


shit

Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!

Holy shit!

Oh, shit!

(vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.

"Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.

(vulgar) Used to show displeasure or surprise.

All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.

(vulgar) Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.

→ Dutch: shit

→ Swedish: shit