- We didn't have any homework, so we decided to go to the park just for shits and giggles.
for shits and giggles
adverb derivation
just for fun. To do something "for shits and giggles" is to do it just because you feel like it, or maybe you have nothing to lose. It is said that this phrase is a more vulgar form of "for kicks and giggles", which is probably a combination of the two phrases "just for kicks" and "just for laughs", but with "laughs" replaced with "giggles". Both the phrases "just for kicks" and "just for laughs" mean essentially the same thing as the neologism "for shits and giggles". This is an example of how slight changes over time can result in an entirely different phrase.
Etymology : probably from "for kicks and giggles", which is probably a combination of "just for kicks" and "just for laughs". J
Source : friend at Rice University, August 2010
Last modified: 8 December 2010