"stir shit" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-stir shit.ogg [Australia] Forms: stirs shit [present, singular, third-person], stirring shit [participle, present], stirred shit [participle, past], stirred shit [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} stir shit (third-person singular simple present stirs shit, present participle stirring shit, simple past and past participle stirred shit)
  1. (slang, idiomatic, vulgar) to deliberately cause trouble Tags: idiomatic, slang, vulgar Synonyms: stir the pot Derived forms: shit-stirrer Translations (to deliberately cause trouble): kylvää riitaa (Finnish), lietsoa levottomuuksia (Finnish), foutre la merde (French), подосра́ть (podosrátʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-stir_shit-en-verb-kAmMBR9C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Russian terms with redundant script codes

Inflected forms

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