Crossword clues for pooped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pooped \Pooped\, p. p. & a. (Naut.)
Having a poop; furnished with a poop.
Struck on the poop.
Tired; exhausted, fatigued.
Poop \Poop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Pooping.] [Cf. D. poepen. See Pop.] To make a noise; to pop; also, to break wind.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tired," 1931, of unknown origin, perhaps imitative of the sound of heavy breathing from exhaustion (compare poop (n.2)). But poop, poop out were used in 1920s in aviation, of an engine, "to die." Also there is a verb poop, of ships, "to be overwhelmed by a wave from behind," often with catastrophic consequences (see poop (n.1)); hence in figurative nautical use, "to be overcome and defeated" (attested in 1920s).\n\nIt is an easy thing to "run"; the difficulty is to know when to stop. There is always the possibility of being "pooped," which simply means being overtaken by a mountain of water and crushed into the depths out of harm's way for good and all.
[Ralph Stock, "The Cruise of the Dream Ship," 1921]
Wiktionary
1 (context slang English) tired; exhausted. 2 (context nautical English) Fitted or furnished with a poop. 3 (context nautical English) Having had a wave come over the stern from abaft. v
(en-past of: poop)
Usage examples of "pooped".
The canapes she keeps waving under all the old noses are soda crackers pooped on with meat by-products.
You look like some meat byproduct ground up and pooped out by the Num Num Snack Factory.
Then it finally began to dawn on people that the natural soft feel of cloth begins to lose some of its charm when it has been pooped and peed on repeatedly.
Nord Zee, and the four of us in the compartment lost our will to talk and sat pooped and quiet as we passed ineffectually through the world.
Leopard was almost becalmed, while on the crest the full force of the wind struck her, threatening to tear her sails from their boltropes or to carry away her masts: even worse, she lost some of her way at the bottom, whereas she needed all her speed to outrun the following seas, for if they were to overtake her she would be pooped, smothered in a mass of breaking water.
Like any freakishly big, eyeless, normal baby who never pooped or ate or cried.
Detweiler left smiling, his check in Mklikluln's hand, even though the puppy had pooped on his shoe.
And although he was forty-five and kind of pooped out and lonely and wondering how hi hell to turn a buck tomorrow, he suddenly smiled, allowing himself a vision he only half (maybe not even a quarter, to be honest) believed.
That's where I met Vitalle, and his pervo pal Ben Hricko, at six one morning paddling them canoes like moccasins were gonna swim and bite through the aluminum Hricko wuz pooped out on a boat-rack flogging one a' Vitalle's Partagas I could smell a mile and Tony Vitalle and me did the extra four laps cross-river while Hricko snoozed.
Each of them grew to as large a size as his or nervous system could handle, and then they pooped out, leaving most of the gnawed imipolex cube still floating in the water.
Before she reached her favorite part, the Gothic towers of Columbia University with its tended gardens, she pooped out and ducked into the subway.
Moreover, the world would not be destroyed, at least not until the sun pooped out in about two billion years—.
Moreover, the world would not be destroyed, at least not until the sun pooped out in about two billion yearsand by then there would be other options.
I used to roll around with them on rugs for hours on end, until they were all pooped out.
You're pooped after that long flight, or ramfeezled, as the Scots say.