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take a shit

vb. 1 (context idiomatic vulgar colloquial English) To defecate. 2 (context idiomatic vulgar colloquial UK English) To fail or malfunction.

WordNet
take a shit

v. have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

Usage examples of "take a shit".

Phil, who was watching Roslyn take a shit in the food-trough, said: 'Speak for yourself.

You're no more free to run off and marry some little slut you've been screwing between the filing cabinets than the president is to take a shit on the White House lawn!

Somebody says that is because when they is out in the desert an gotta take a shit, they can grap ahold of the ends of the shoes when they bend over an it keeps them on balance.