Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to break wind.

1721		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. n.p.: To Poop, to break Wind backwards softly.
1744		‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb’s Songbook (1788) 31: Little Robin Red Breast, / Sitting on a Pole, / Niddle, Noddle went his Head, / And Poop went his Hole.
c.1885		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 626: Wiggle-waggle went his tail, / Poop! went his hole.
1909–17		T.S. Eliot ‘Columbo & Bolo Verses’ Inventions of the March Hare in Ricks (1996) 319: Columbo being full of rum / He fell down in a stupor / They turned his asshole S.S.W. / And he cried ‘I’ll die a pooper!’.
1927–41		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 139: There was a fat lady of Bryde / Whose shoelaces once came untied. / She didn’t dare stoop / For fear she would poop.
1953		S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 1217: [...] pooped, farted away, no-purposed away.
1977		G. Melly Rum, Bum and Concertina (1978) 54: Ma allowed herself the luxury of a discreet fart and pa Watt, following in her wake, asked if she’d ‘pooped’.

2. to defecate; also fig. use, to squander, to waste.

c.1895		Actionable Offenses ‘Did He Charge Too Much’ (2007) [cylinder recording ENHS 30188] I’d have given fifty dollars for a bit of a turd a half an inch long. That shows you ’t the price o’ manure’ll vary, sir, accordin’ to the circumstances under which it is pooped.
c.1900		‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 113: I’ve pooped in a man’s mouth more than once [...] there are some men who like that.
1929		E. Hemingway letter 24/31 Oct. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 309: To avoid praising you to your face and pooping on mine she said she wasn’t saying the flame was of the same quality.
1931		E. Hemingway letter 12 Apr. in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 340: Don’t poop away such fine material.
1935		J. Conroy World to Win 334: All the fine promises o’ the New Deal had pooped out and left nothin’ but a stink.
1943		R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 94: ‘Ask no questions,’ says Henry, ‘Hear no lies. Ever see a nanny goat poop pork pies?’.
1959		C. Lee diary 14 Apr. in Eight Bells & Top Masts (2001) 202: All these mules ever did was eat, piss and poop .
1963		Kerouac letter 25 Mar. in Charters II (1999) 360: Her new hobby is feeding the birds [,...] and she’s afraid they’re gonna poop on her wash.
1976		P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 345: The house only had one bathroom and Dad used to stay in there poopin’ and readin’ the paper on Sunday morning.
1980		Jackson & Christian Death Row 118: If this guy poops over there, you can smell it over here.
1993		T. Winton Lockie Leonard: Scumbuster (1995) 99: Blob’s pooped her nappy.
2004		T. Winton ‘Sand’ Turning (2005) 167: His undies sagged [...] the way they were the day he had pooped his pants at school.
2011		D. Tel. 2 Feb. 29/5: All he’s doing at the moment is pooping, eating and burping.
2013		Baltimore Sun (MD) 11 Sept. E5/2: Are you somking some wacky medical shit all rolled up in sheets of asswipe fishwrap you poop your writing onto?’.
2023		Rayman & Blau Riker’s 115: [Y]ou just see her hanging. We cut her down. She pooped herself and pissed herself.

3. to shoot a weapon.

1914		T. Hampson diary 22 Oct. 🌐 The French gunners pooped off a lot of stuff very rapidly for a time and then pushed off somewhere else.
1918		‘Sapper’ Human Touch 233: I give it about one hour before every gun in the Boche army is pooping at it.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 227: Poop (or Poop Off): To fire (of artillery).
1937		J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 86: The old boy might jil to woodrus with a gun for all you knew and start pooping off at anyone he saw.
1945		J. Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1974) 18: Poop off a few rounds, blow the back clean off a truck.

4. to shoot someone.

1929		C.G. Givens ‘Chatter of Guns’ in Sat. Eve. Post 13 Apr.; list extracted in AS VI:2 (1930) 134: poop, v. Hit with a bullet.
1931		Hammett Glass Key 547: ‘You remember the night the Henry kid was pooped?’.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 162/1: Poop. To shoot a person.
1957		R. Prather Always Leave ’Em Dying 28: You would have thought I’d pooped Malenkov.
1970		A. Sillitoe Start in Life (1979) 96: Our blokes had been short of ammunition, and the officers had been pooped off, so they decided to surrender.

5. (US) to give, to hand out.

1974

(con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 344: There was H. G. Wells putting lie to the stuff pooped out by publishers and dropped on his school desk.

6. (US) to urinate.

1951

in V. Randolph Pissing in the Snow (1988) 140: Maybe that bartender just pooped in your drink. But he sure as hell shit in mine!