to feel poopless
- phrasal verb
- Slang
- After working all night, she felt poopless and needed a break.
Examples
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After the long hike, I felt poopless.
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By the end of finals week, most of us feel poopless from all the studying.
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After running the marathon, he said he felt poopless and just wanted to lie down.
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She was so busy with her project that she was feeling poopless by Friday evening.
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She feels poopless after working all night.
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After running the marathon, he said he felt poopless and just wanted to lie down.
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By the end of finals week, most of us felt poopless from all the studying.
Synonyms
To be very tired and weak after hard effort
Antonyms
How Tired
Surface Forms
Morphology
feel + poopless
The intended meaning 'extremely exhausted' cannot be derived from the apparent constituents: a B1 learner who knows 'feel' and 'poop' plus the suffix '-less' would most plausibly interpret 'poopless' as 'without poop' or 'lacking feces', which is unrelated to being tired. The form is non-standard/slang and seems to rely on confusion with 'pooped' (tired), so the meaning is unpredictable from morphology and would be opaque to learners.
Etymology
The phrase feel poopless comes from the slang pooped, which means very tired. Imagine your energy as a small supply called poop that is all used up; when it is empty you 'feel poopless', so the phrase means 'extremely exhausted'.