the runs
Loose stool affliction
The runs is informal for diarrhea—frequent, loose, or liquid bowel movements: I ate something bad and had the runs all night.
The expression captures the urgency of needing to run to the bathroom.
- squirtsForceful liquid ejections
- loose stoolsWatery, unformed feces
- dysenteryBloody intestinal infection
- Delhi bellyTraveler's gastrointestinal illness
- diarrheaFrequent liquid bowel movements
food poisoning · winning streak · E. coli · trots · gastroenteritis · traveler's diarrhea · giardiasis · dehydration · cholera · losing streak · abdominal cramps · momentum · hot hand · slump · irritable bowel syndrome · dash · scoring · base hits
bowel movement frequency/consistency
the runsconstipation
Difficult, infrequent waste elimination
impaction · intestinal blockage · bowel obstruction · irregularity
run, runner, running, runny, runs, overrun, outrun, rerun, runners