poo-poo
Americannoun
verb (used with or without object)
idioms
Etymology
Origin of poo-poo
1970–75; expressive formation; cf. poop 2
Example Sentences
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‘Don’t shoot the messenger; shoot the numbers. It’s all poo-poo.’
From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026
Explaining this to be the one charge that brought the Espionage Act into the mix, he goes on to poo-poo the rest as being easily defeated on "legal and factual grounds."
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2023
At one point, she gravely told a roomful of her colleagues: “It’s going to take time to clean up the poo-poo they’re making, literally and figuratively, in the Capitol.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2022
But she worried aloud that “it could take time to clean up the poo-poo that they’re making all over — literally and figuratively.”
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
Anyway, Laura being Laura shouted out something like: “Tommy! You got poo-poo on your back! What have you been doing?”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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