eat shit
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
eat shit (third-person singular simple present eats shit, present participle eating shit, simple past ate shit, past participle eaten shit)
- (slang, vulgar, of a person) To fall and land on one's face.
- Synonym: faceplant
- 2009, Laura Thornhill, The Skateboarder's Journal - Lives on Board:
- Finally, for my 13th birthday, I got a skateboard — a Black Knight with those cool black urethane wheels. I cut my teeth on that board — and ate shit on it many, many times.
- (slang, vulgar, of an object) To experience a catastrophic breakdown.
- (slang, vulgar, humorous, of a person) To do something disgusting or strongly undesirable.
- (slang, vulgar) To be soundly defeated.
- When he started insulting people's mothers, the bouncer made him eat shit.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, shit.
Interjection
eat shit!
- (idiomatic, vulgar) An expression of discontent or aggravation to another party.
- "I fucked your sister!" "Eat shit!"
Translations
expression of discontent or aggravation
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Etymology 2
Calque of Spanish comer mierda (“to waste time”) in the context of Cuban Spanish
Verb
eat shit (third-person singular simple present eats shit, present participle eating shit, simple past ate shit, past participle eaten shit)
- (US, slang, vulgar, chiefly Miami) To do nothing of importance; to idle.
Anagrams
- ate shit, atheist, hastite, staithe, teatish