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▶ the shits
- diarrhoea UK, 1947
- I was excited by the whole thing plus the granola diet didn’t do too well, and I had the shits. The first day I was squeezing my legs, I had the shits so bad. — Stephen Ziplow, The Film Maker’s Guide to Pornography, p. 150, 1977
- Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes *Shits.* — Sal Piro and Michael Hess, The Official “Rocky Horror Picture Show” Audience Participation Guide, p. 6, 1991
- If you drink enough, you will cease to be concerned with either your piles or your inevitably on-going case of the shits. — Steven Treanor, The Guardian, 18 March 2002
- the worst US, 1947
- “Now isn’t that the shits,” exclaimed Nuclear Phyllis[.] — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 34, 1971
- fear UK, 1967
Following logically from the earlier sense as “diarrhoea”. - — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 267, 1998
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