# bullshit

Pronunciation: say "BUUL-shit" /ˈbʊlʃɪt/

## Noun

1. False, exaggerated, or misleading talk meant to impress or deceive, or said with no concern for whether it is true. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Talk that is untrue, exaggerated, or nonsense, said to fool or impress people. A rude word.
   - _The salesman fed us a lot of bullshit about the car never having been in an accident._
   - _His résumé was padded with bullshit about leading projects he had barely worked on._
2. Stuff of any kind, especially when viewed negatively or spoken of with the easy vulgarity of friends and colleagues. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Stuff of any kind, often things you dislike, said in a rough but friendly way.
   - _Orientation covered parking permits, dress codes, fire drills, and all that bullshit._
   - _With all the bullshit going on at home, he could hardly focus on his classes._
8. A card game in which players race to discard their hands, and the rules reward bluffing, calling others' bluffs, and tricking opponents into false accusations that cost them.
   - Simple: A card game where players try to get rid of their cards first by lying and catching others' lies.
   - _In bullshit, you can lay down three cards, call them all kings, and dare anyone to challenge you._
   - _She lost the round of bullshit after wrongly calling out her uncle, who really had laid down two sevens._
9. The droppings or dung of a bull.
   - Simple: The solid waste that comes out of a bull.
   - _After the rodeo, workers hosed the bullshit out of the chutes._
   - _The pasture smelled of cut hay and fresh bullshit._

## Adjective

3. Making no sense or defying reason; absurd, particularly of statements, information, or content. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Silly, not sensible, or making no sense, used mostly about things people say or write.
   - _The video was full of bullshit claims, like the idea that the moon is hollow inside._
   - _He quit after two years in a bullshit job that was mostly forwarding emails._

## Interjection

4. Used as an exclamation to say that you do not believe what someone has just said. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Said when you do not believe what someone has just told you.
   - _“I bench-pressed three hundred pounds yesterday.” “Bullshit! You can barely lift your gym bag.”_
   - _When the coach claimed the referee had called a fair game, half the bench muttered, “Bullshit.”_

## Verb

5. To tell lies or exaggerate, or to mislead or deceive someone. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To lie, make things sound bigger than they are, or trick someone.
   - _He tried to bullshit the inspector about the missing safety records._
   - _I could tell she was bullshitting when her story changed for the third time._
6. To have a casual, aimless conversation, chatting about nothing in particular. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To chat in a relaxed way about nothing important.
   - _The mechanics would bullshit with customers while the cars were up on the lift._
   - _We spent most of the road trip bullshitting about baseball and the weather._
7. To make something up on the spot, improvising instead of relying on preparation. *(slang)*
   - Simple: To make something up right then, without planning it first.
   - _With no notes in front of him, the speaker had to bullshit the last twenty minutes of his talk._
   - _She hadn't prepared for that interview question, so she bullshitted until a real answer came to her._

## Origin

Formed from bull + shit, the word is recorded by 1903.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bullshit (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).