poop out
Idioms-
Tire out, exhaust, as in I ran about ten miles, but then I was too pooped out to go on .
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Quit, decide not to participate, especially at the last minute. For example, We had about twenty signed up for the seminar, but then half of them pooped out . [ Slang ; late 1800s]
Example Sentences
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Basically, the concept is these characters walk around this pen and they take pictures, and everything they’re seeing they poop out.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
There’s a lot of cleaning equipment, chopping frozen fish for fish smoothies and scrubbing slimy pinniped poop out of the pens.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2024
Neglected for years, it required modern researchers to dig inches-high dirt and mouse poop out before they could turn it into SAM: the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars.
From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2023
Comb jellies are their own group separate from jellyfish, who have no anuses and thus poop out their mouths.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2021
“Yeah, I probably scared the poop out of them, going off the deep end like that.”
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
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