Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. excrement, usu. animal; thus dodo-head n., a term of abuse.

1962		(con. 1950s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 81: ‘You dodo head. I’ma beat your butt.’ ‘Aw nigger, you ain’t gone do nothing. Dodo on you and yo mama too.’.
1972		O. Hawkins Ghetto Sketches 196: I’m fed up with stumblin’ ’round in my own doo-doo every time I flush the toilet!
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 161: The proverbial doo-doo was getting ready to hit the proverbial fan.
1996		Snoop Doggy Dogg ‘2001’ 🎵 They droppin doo-doo / I’m steppin on shit.
1997		L. Pettiway Workin’ It 178: There’s doo-doo and that cat doo-doo there.
1998		(con. 1960s) G. Washington Blood Brothers 133: Kareem was there to meet us with a five-piece raggedy band of shoeless musicians who sounded like dog doo-doo.
2001		Guardian Rev. 10 Mar. 2: It’s a blend of cannabis, nutmeg, curry powder and dried dog doo-doo...
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 1558: Miss Chiff doing the kinda shit Doodle done, like putting dog doodoo in the purse a somebody she ain’t like.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 187: Lucia Gammeltoft The Queen Of Trapeze And Somersets, the clowns PooPoo and DooDoo.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1974

Frank Zappa ‘Pygmy Twylyte’ 🎵 Joined the bus on the 33rd seat / By the doo-doo room with the reek replete.

3. fig. use of sense 1, trouble, difficulties; esp. as deep doo-doo, serious trouble.

[1914		Ade ‘The New Fable of The Toilsome Ascent’ in Ade’s Fables 178: They lit on him spraddled out. They gave him the Doo-Doo].
1988		Noblesville Ledger (IN) 29 Aug. 4/6: ‘Get out now. The doo-doo is just going to get deeper anddeeper’.
1993		Lerner et al. Dict. of Today’s Words.
1996		K. Lette Mad Cows 13: Life had just handed them a one-way ticket: destination — deep doo-doo.
2001		K. Waterhouse Soho 121: You’re in enough doo-doo as it is.
2011		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 29 May 🌐 Dominque Strauss-Kahn is in the doo-doo.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘So now I’m deep in the doo-doo’.
2012		D. O’Donnell Locked Ward (2013) 321: You would have been in deep doo-doo. Right up to your neck.
2020		S.A. Crosby Blacktop Wasteland 187: ‘You in some deep doo-doo’.

4. (US black) something utterly insignificant; usu. in phr. don’t mean do-do (to me).

1962

(con. 1930s) H. Simmons Man Walking On Eggshells 62: Jerome, you ain’t nothing. You can’t whip do-do.

5. (US) lit. or fig. rubbish.

1991		D. Jenkins You Gotta Play Hurt 268: ‘Listen to the man,’ Pork Chop said. ‘Man talkin’ doo-doo’.
1997		Simon & Burns Corner (1998) 437: Stay away from those Purple Tops [...] them purple ones is doo-doo.
2000		B. Wiprud Sleep with the Fishes 22: Don’t give us that doo-doo about ‘Trade Secrets’.
2008		J. Lansdale Leather Maiden 102: ‘You just have to talk some good doo-doo, brother’.