shit up

English

Verb

shit up (third-person singular simple present shits up, present participle shitting up, simple past and past participle shit up or shitted up or shat up)

1. (vulgar, slang, transitive) To mess up; to ruin.
   • 1991, Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne, A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979, page 91:

     They just go on shitting up the world and feel no responsibility for their character or anything they do.

2. (vulgar, slang, transitive) To cover or smear with excrement.
   • 2006, Vic Dark, For the Love of the Gun, page 117:

     To entice the screw into the best position to be shitted up the trick was to ask them to open a door on the landing. Keith was in his cell, conned the screw to the top of the stairs and whooshhhhhh!!!

   • 2013, Kenny Attaway, Juici Couture & the Suga-Hill Gang, page 45:

     Her roommate Eerie had a panic attack while using the bathroom and shitted up their entire cell/living area screaming "Nina is trying to kill me with voodoo devil worshiping shit" until she was removed and sent to some upstate nut house joint immediately.

Coordinate terms

• shittify

Anagrams

• hits up, hitups, push it