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Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged: poop, n. [L. puppis, the stern of a ship.] 1. The aftermost part of a vessel; a poop deck. 2. Same as Poop cabin. poop, n. In Architecture, a poppy head. poop, n. The act of breaking wind. [Slang[ poop, v.t.; pooped, pt., pp.; pooping, ppr. 1. To break over the stern of, as a heavy sea. 2. To strike on the stern, as one vessel that runs her stem against another's stern. 3. To cheat; to trick; to dupe. [Prov. Eng.] poop, v.i. To break wind. [Slang] poop cabin. The cabin under the poop deck. poop deck. A deck built over the cabin of a ship, when the cabin is in the spar deck. pooped (poopt) a. 1. Having a poop. 2 Struck on the poop by a heavy sea. poppy head, n. In Architecture, a generic term given to the ornamental finials used in churches, especially at the end of pews. >From the above information, one could deduce that 1) I rely on very old sources (New Twentieth Century edition -- it's the one I used to sit on when I was too short at the dinner table) 2) maybe what breaks over the stern of a ship is a certain type of "wind" 3) you might not want to live below the poop, eh? 4) the dictionary is full of violence 4) the term "the end of pews" seems a bit graphic, in olfactory meaning Deanne Charlton (CG) [log in to unmask]