the_shits has definitions from the field of medicine
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[ noun ] (medicine) obscene terms for diarrhea

Synonyms

the_trots

Used in print

(Bell I. Wiley, "Home Letters of Johnny Reb and Billy...)

Men of more delicate sensibilities referred to this condition as `` looseness_of_the_bowels '' ; but a much more common designation was `` the_sh-ts '' .

A Michigan soldier stationed in Georgia wrote in 1864 : `` I expect to be tough as a knott as_soon_as I get_over the Georgia Shitts '' .

Related terms

diarrhea

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