bowel movement
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
bowel movement (plural bowel movements)
- The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.
- 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day.
- The feces thus produced.
Usage notes[edit]
- A nonvulgar, relatively inoffensive term for this bodily function, acceptable for general use.
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Translations[edit]
discharge of feces
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