Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

talk shit

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.15 in modern English

Syllables: talk shit
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.

Slang

verb

To speak nonsense or to lie.

Slang

Example Sentences

"Talk shit, get hit."
"No, but the point of the story is you guys would be a good couple, but anyways, the thing is, is yo, this girl is blurping his business to shorties like me, and what I don’t like is if the business is true that you left your moms in the hood, somebody go smoke that yute; you don’t leave your moms nowhere — you have money and you left your moms there? Yo, you’re sick to my stomach, fam — but if it’s not true, shorties just talking shit."
"Yo, man, Bobby was here, an' he was talkin' all kinds of shit about how many girlfriends he's had; y'all know that he ain't had a girlfriend since a girl had him."

Etymology

From talk (“to speak of, to discuss”) + shit (“nonsense, "bullshit"”).

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

talks shit (present, singular) talking shit (participle, present) talked shit (participle, past) talked shit (past)

Phrases

shit talk shit talking talk shit, get hit

Synonyms

misrepresent slander talk trash talk shite assassinate asperse backbite badmouth befoul belibel besmirch besmear

Questions

What does talk shit mean?: To untruthfully speak of another in a belittling, deprecative, slighting manner, either in person or in absentia.
Where does talk shit come from?: From talk (“to speak of, to discuss”) + shit (“nonsense, "bullshit"”).

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