take a shit
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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)
- (idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
- Is she still taking a shit? We gotta go now.
- (idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, UK) To fail or malfunction.
- I had to use the stairs because the lift took a shit this morning.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, a, shit.
- Take a shit and a pair of tweezers from the front desk and sit back down at your dissection microscopes.
Synonyms edit
- (to shit): See Thesaurus:defecate
- (to fail): crap out