[shit] Vulgar.
excrement; feces.
an act of defecating; evacuation.
the shits, diarrhea.
Slang. pretense, lies, exaggeration, or nonsense.
Slang. something inferior or worthless.
Slang. a selfish, mean, or otherwise contemptible person.
Slang. narcotic drugs, especially heroin or marijuana.
to defecate.
Slang. to exaggerate or lie to.
Slang. to defecate in (one's clothes), as from terror or illness; soil (oneself): She was so shocked, she shit her pants!
give a shit, Slang. (often used in the negative) to care; be concerned: My ex will be at the party with his new girlfriend, but I don't give a shit. Who gives a shit if you're going or not going!
no shit, Slang.
(used to express amazement or incredulity): He got into MIT? No shit!
(used to express one's annoyance with an obvious statement.)
in deep shit, Slang. in trouble: If I don't study for that math test, I'll be in deep shit.
up shit/shit's creek, Slang. in a desperate or hopeless situation; in serious trouble: You'd be up shit's creek if I wasn't here to bail you out, Billy—I'm telling you, this is the last time! Also, up shit/shit's creek without a paddle.

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World English Dictionary
shat (ʃæt)
taboo a past tense and past participle of shit

shit (ʃɪt, ʃaɪt)
vb , shits, shitting, shitted, shit, shat
1.  to defecate
2.  slang (usually foll by on) to give the worst possible treatment (to)
3.  faeces; excrement
4.  an act of defecation
5.  rubbish; nonsense
6.  an obnoxious or worthless person
7.  cannabis resin or heroin
8.  in the shit in trouble
9.  the shit hits the fan the real trouble begins
10.  an exclamation expressing anger, disgust, etc

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

conscience. The noun is O.E. scitte "purging;" sense of "excrement" dates from 1585, from the verb. Despite what you read in an e-mail, "shit" is not an acronym. The notion that it is a recent word may be because the word was taboo from c.1600 and rarely appeared in print (neither Shakespeare not the KJV has it), and even in "vulgar" publications of the late 18c. it is disguised by dashes. It drew the wrath of censors as late as 1922 ("Ulysses" and "The Enormous Room"), scandalized magazine subscribers in 1957 (a Hemingway story in "Atlantic Monthly") and was omitted from some dictionaries as recently as 1970 ("Webster's New World"). Extensive slang usage; verb meaning "to lie, to tease" is from 1934; that of "to disrespect" is from 1903. Noun use for "obnoxious person" is since at least 1508; meaning "misfortune, trouble" is attested from 1937. Shat is a humorous past tense form, not etymological, first recorded 18c. Shite, now a jocular or slightly euphemistic variant, formerly a dialectal variant, reflects the vowel in the O.E. verb (cf. Ger. scheissen). Shit-faced "drunk" is 1960s student slang; shit list is from 1942. To not give a shit "not care" is from 1922; up shit creek "in trouble" is from 1937. Scared shitless first recorded 1936.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
If you want the picture in more detail, from the age of four he navigated all lavatories and shat himself everywhere else.
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