poop-butt
n.— «It’s hard for you to know whether you can cut it anyplace. Not just here, anywhere. Don’t believe that about “if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” That’s bull ——. If you can make it period, that’s wonderful. That’s anywhere. In a little poop-butt town.» —“It’s About Commitment” by Lorraine Kee St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri) Nov. 17, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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