poo pirate
- noun
- /puː ˈpaɪərət/
- NSFW
- The new employee was jokingly nicknamed the poo pirate after he cleaned up the dog park.
Examples
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Look at that poo pirate digging in the yard!
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They smiled and teased their friend as a poo pirate because he always volunteered to pick up dog waste.
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Every morning, my dog becomes a poo pirate, secretly hiding his mess in the backyard.
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They laughed and called their friend a poo pirate because he always volunteered to walk the neighborhood dogs.
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The neighborhood poo pirates are quite active these days.
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Every morning, my dog becomes a poo pirate, secretly hiding his mess in the backyard.
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The new employee was jokingly nicknamed the poo pirate after he cleaned up the dog park.
Surface Forms
Morphology
poo + pirate
The components 'poo' and 'pirate' give a clear topical cue (something to do with feces and a playful agent), so a learner can guess it labels a person/animal involved with poo. However, the exact sense (a person who collects dog waste vs. a dog that buries waste) is a creative, slangy metaphorical extension and not fully predictable from the parts without exposure, so partial inference is possible but not reliable.
Etymology
Poo pirate comes from a funny image: poo is the animal waste and a pirate sneaks around taking or hiding things like treasure. So the name is a playful way to call someone who 'collects animal waste' or a dog that 'buries its waste'.