pooped
pooped Lexical Profile
pooped Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Physically or mentally exhausted; completely worn out (informal).
"After hiking up the steep mountain trail all afternoon, the campers were completely pooped."
• verb
To defecate; to pass solid waste from the bowels (past tense and past participle of 'poop', informal).
"The puppy pooped in the backyard right after eating his morning meal."
To tire out or exhaust someone completely (past tense and past participle of 'poop', informal).
"Moving all that heavy furniture up three flights of stairs really pooped us out."
To break over the stern of a ship (past tense and past participle of 'poop', nautical, of a heavy wave).
"During the gale, a towering rogue wave pooped the schooner and flooded the aft deck."
Word Nuance & Usage
As an adjective meaning 'exhausted', 'pooped' is informal and used almost exclusively as a predicate adjective (e.g., 'I am pooped' rather than 'a pooped runner').
• Rhymes for pooped
Word Origin & Etymology
The adjective meaning 'exhausted' arose in late 19th-century nautical slang, derived from the verb 'poop', meaning for a vessel to be overwhelmed by a heavy wave breaking over its stern (poop).