the shits

1. 1.

   obscene terms for diarrhea

   Synonymsthe trots

   Broaderdiarrhea

   slang

Questions about the shits

What does the shits mean?

the shits means "obscene terms for diarrhea".

What is another word for the shits?

Close synonyms include the trots. 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 the shits a common word?

the shits is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.