poop

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The elevation above it is known as the poop, and the raised deck over the fore-part of the ship is known as the top-gallant forecastle.

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  1. noun An enclosed superstructure at the stern of a ship.
  2. noun A poop deck.
  3. transitive verb To break over the stern of (a ship).
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  • Out we ran, and there on the poop were the lieutenant and ten of his men. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • You wanted poop, here's poop: Magnum bought the rights in 1950 from a guy named Frank Colodny. —  Hoodwink
  • The elevation above it is known as the poop, and the raised deck over the fore-part of the ship is known as the top-gallant forecastle. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
  • And upon her poop was the man with the mane of the sea lion, pressing the rails under with the canvas and laughing in his strength of life. —  The Son of the Wolf
  • The last man off the poop was the Maltese Cockney, and at the top of the ladder he paused to look back at Mr. Pike, who, holding the automatic in both hands, was taking careful aim. —  The Mutiny of the Elsinore
 

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Etymologies (10)

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  1. Middle English poupe, from Old French, from Latin puppis.
  2. Origin unknown.
  3. Origin unknown .
  4. Perhaps short for nincompoop.
  5. Possibly from obsolete poop, to break wind, from Middle English poupen, to blow a horn, toot, of imitative origin.

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  1. Formerly also poup, poupe, puppe, from Old French poupe, pouppe, French poupe = Provencal Spanish Portuguese popa = Italian poppa, from Latin puppis, the stern of a ship.
  2. Formerly also poupe; from poop, n.
  3. from French poupée, in architecture, poppy, poppy-head: see poppy.
  4. from Dutch poepen, break wind; imitative; cf. pop, and Middle English poupen, blow a horn.
  5. from Dutch poep, a breaking of wind, from the verb.
 

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