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shit

3 verb
     
shit3 past tense and past participle shit or shat present participle shitting spoken not polite
1

shit yourself

British English

; shit (in) your pants

American English to feel very worried or frightened
2 [intransitive] to pass solid waste out of your body from your bowels
3 [transitive] American English to tell someone something that is untrue:
• Are you shitting me?
4 [intransitive] to treat someone very badly
shit on
• This will teach you not to shit on me.
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