hot poop

English

Noun

hot poop (uncountable)

1. (US, military, slang) The latest news or gossip.
   • 1947, Murray Morgan, Bridge To Russia: Those Amazing Aleutians, New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, page 161:

     Then the Seventh moved to Fort Ord and practiced—although without full equipment—amphibious landings. The hot poop of the rumor mongers became, “Southwest Pacific for us, fellows.” But when the convoy sailed from San Francisco on April twenty-fourth, the ships turned north.

   • 1986, United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command, The MAC Flyer, volume 33, page 22:

     Maybe Colonel Fang's going to give us the hot poop regarding this midnight mission.

See also

• hot shit