take a shit

Questions about take a shit

What does take a shit mean?

take a shit means "have a bowel movement".

What is another word for take a shit?

Close synonyms include stool, defecate, shit, take a crap, ca-ca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take a shit a common word?

take a shit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.