Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An exposed partial deck on the stern superstructure of a ship.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the deck forming the roof of a poop or poop cabin, built on the upper deck and extending from the mizzenmast aft.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an exposed partial weather deck on the stern superstructure of a ship
Etymologies
- From poop ("the stern of a ship") + deck. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poop deck’.
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Dirty Words?
flange, shunt, dictum, angina, cunctator, mastication, spelunker, shiitake, rimshot, arsole, forebulge, fecund and 34 more...
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Nautical Words
lubber, mizzenmast, circumnavigation, clipper, cordage, galleon, gangplank, gangway, flying bridge, following sea, schooner, amidships and 106 more...
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favourite phrases
light pollution, poop deck, inclement weather, pole star, wax poetic, grandfather clock, tea cozy, lunar maria, shotgun wedding, gathering my wits..., pyrrhic victory, scorched earth and 108 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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and Bristol fashion
being items related to boats, ships, sailing, nautical and naval lore &c.
sloop, frigate, brigantine, brig, grog, schooner, rig, sail, canvas, jib, forestay, cutter and 150 more...
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May or May Not Be Specific, But It's ...
This list will contain all non-excremental references to poo. See its ancestor list, Specific Excrement, which has generated no small amount of conversation (heated and otherwise) since its incepti...
fernando poo, a pooping sea, poop deck, clinchpoop, pimiento load, crappie, very reverend con..., pookimo, pootalian, kickapoo, skypoo, swheat-n-poo and 72 more...
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babygraceblue3's Words
legerdemain, abecedarian, honorificabilitud..., lacrimator, satyriasis, poop deck, pandemonium, antepenultimate, calisthenicist, maw
Tweets
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oroboros The kennel floor? Apr 24, 2010
chained_bear There is rather a lot of discussion of genuine poop decks on the page for poop. Perhaps it should be pasted here...
The purpose which started the whole poopy conversation:
I had to replace the phrase "poop deck" in a text having to do with the slave trade that was going to be read by a bunch of 5th-graders. You can see why it had to be replaced. The slave trade is not funny, but 10-year-olds would be so distracted by the word... The original sentence read something like, "Men were fed on the quarterdeck, women and children on the poop."
I remember it didn't even say poop deck, which changed its meaning entirely (from a modern perspective). Later, I found a number of additional usages that clearly mean poop deck, but shortened the phrase:
"'I believe we may attack the adagio directly,' said Stephen. 'The wind is in our poop, and we have never played better.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 64
But this one's even better:
"'So she is the Bellona, the chief argosy of your command! ... Why, I declare, she has a poop, which adds much to her dignity.'"
Wait! Wait! It goes on:
"'When you are on the quarterdeck in a hot action with a really malignant enemy firing great guns and small arms, it is a wonderful comfort to have a solid poop behind you.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 70 Oct 14, 2008
abraxaszugzwang swab it. Feb 12, 2007