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Behold the particularly fine seaman up there on the poop deck.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
In Kushner-Kloss world, the light is always honeyed, air travel quietly private and human and divine seemingly will converge somewhere in the Grenadines aboard the poop deck of the billionaire David Geffen’s humongous Lürssen yacht, Rising Sun.
—Guy Trebay, New York Times, 22 July 2023
And the poop deck, where passengers crowded as the ship sank, folded under itself.
—Fox News, 1 July 2021
So instead of heading upward, most of the third-class passengers headed toward the back poop deck.
—Cody Cassidy, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
Under the poop deck were spaces for the machine room and the radio generator.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Longreads, 16 Jan. 2018
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First Known Use
1717, in the meaning defined above
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“Poop deck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poop%20deck. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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