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shit

  [shit] noun, verb, shit or shat, shit⋅ting, interjection Vulgar.
Use shit in a Sentence
–noun
1. excrement; feces.
2. an act of defecating; evacuation.
3. the shits. diarrhea.
4. Slang. pretense, lies, exaggeration, or nonsense.
5. Slang. something inferior or worthless.
6. Slang. a selfish, mean, or otherwise contemptible person.
7. Slang. narcotic drugs, esp. heroin or marijuana.
8. Slang. possessions, equipment, mementos, etc.; stuff.
–verb (used without object)
9. to defecate.
–verb (used with object)
10. Slang. to exaggerate or lie to.
–interjection
11. Slang. (used to express disgust, disappointment, frustration, contempt, or the like).
—Idioms
12. give a shit, Slang. to care; be concerned.
13. no shit, (used to express amazement, incredulity, or derision).
14. up shit creek, Slang. in a desperate or hopeless situation; in serious trouble. Also, up shits creek, up shit creek without a paddle.
Origin:
(v.) var. (with short i from ptp. or n.) of earlier shite, ME shiten, OE scītan; cf. MLG, MD schiten (D schijten), OHG skīzan (G scheissen); (n.) re-formation from the v., or continuation of OE scite (in place names)
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shit   (shĭt)   
v.   shit also shat (shāt), shit·ting, shits

v.   intr.
To defecate.
v.   tr.

  1. To defecate in.

  2. To tease or try to deceive.

n.  

  1. Excrement.

  2. The act or an instance of defecating.

  3. shits Diarrhea. Used with the.

    1. Something considered disgusting, of poor quality, foolish, or otherwise totally unacceptable.

    2. A mean or contemptible person.

  5. A narcotic or intoxicant, such as marijuana or heroin.

  6. Things; items.

  7. Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language.

  8. Insolent talk or behavior.

  9. Trouble or difficulty.

  10. A small or worthless amount: He doesn't know shit.

interj.  Used to express surprise, anger, or extreme displeasure.
Phrasal Verb(s):
shit onTo treat with malice or extreme disrespect.

Idiom(s):
get (one's) shit togetherTo get organized; put one's affairs or possessions in order.

Idiom(s):
give a shitTo care the least bit.

Idiom(s):
no shit

  1. Used to express disbelief.

  2. Used to express contemptuous acknowledgment of the obvious.


Idiom(s):
shit bricks/a brickTo become extremely worried or frightened.

Idiom(s):
up shit creek (without a paddle)In dire circumstances with no hope of help.

Idiom(s):
when the shit hits the fanWhen the situation goes awry; when trouble starts.

[Middle English shitten, probably from Old English -sciten (as in besciten, covered with excrement), past participle of *scītan, to defecate; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
shit

  1. n.
    dung; feces. (Usually objectionable. Colloquial. Objectionable for many people. See the complete list of all entries with shit in the Index of Hidden Key Words.) : Gee! I stepped in some shit!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

shit  (v.)
O.E. scitan, from P.Gmc. *skit-, from PIE *skheid- "split, divide, separate." Related to shed (v.) on the notion of "separation" from the body (cf. L. excrementum, from excernere "to separate"). It is thus a cousin to science and conscience. The noun is O.E. scitte "purging;" sense of "excrement" dates from 1585, from the verb. Despite what you read in an e-mail, "shit" is not an acronym. The notion that it is a recent word may be because the word was taboo from c.1600 and rarely appeared in print (neither Shakespeare not the KJV has it), and even in "vulgar" publications of the late 18c. it is disguised by dashes. It drew the wrath of censors as late as 1922 ("Ulysses" and "The Enormous Room"), scandalized magazine subscribers in 1957 (a Hemingway story in "Atlantic Monthly") and was omitted from some dictionaries as recently as 1970 ("Webster's New World"). Extensive slang usage; verb meaning "to lie, to tease" is from 1934; that of "to disrespect" is from 1903. Noun use for "obnoxious person" is since at least 1508; meaning "misfortune, trouble" is attested from 1937. Shat is a humorous past tense form, not etymological, first recorded 18c. Shite, now a jocular or slightly euphemistic variant, formerly a dialectal variant, reflects the vowel in the O.E. verb (cf. Ger. scheissen). Shit-faced "drunk" is 1960s student slang; shit list is from 1942. To not give a shit "not care" is from 1922; up shit creek "in trouble" is from 1937. Scared shitless first recorded 1936.
"The expression [the shit hits the fan] is related to, and may well derive from, an old joke. A man in a crowded bar needed to defecate but couldn't find a bathroom, so he went upstairs and used a hole in the floor. Returning, he found everyone had gone except the bartender, who was cowering behind the bar. When the man asked what had happened, the bartender replie
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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