bowel movement

bowel movement (plural bowel movements)

1. The discharge of feces from the body, an act of defecation.
   • 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times‎:

     Mid-March 2021, at a bowling alley, I watch balls thunder down lanes and wonder if I’ve had a bowel movement since Presidents’ Day.

2. The feces thus produced.

• A nonvulgar, relatively inoffensive term for this bodily function, acceptable for general use.

• BM
• See Thesaurus:defecation

• move one's bowels