shitstorm
Noun
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Noun
shitstorm (plural shitstorms)
- (slang, pejorative, vulgar) A chaotic and unpleasant or violent situation.
- 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Chapter 110
- 'Sometimes the pool-pah,' Bokonon tells us, 'exceeds the power of humans to comment.' Bokonon translates pool-pah at one point in The Books of Bokonon as 'shit storm' and at another point as 'wrath of God'.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon,Gravity’s Rainbow, Part I
- “...seem’s he’s been tumbling ass over teakettle—though there’s no way to tell in this murky shitstorm, no visual references...”
- 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Chapter 110
- (idiomatic, vulgar) Considerable backlash from the public.
- 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32:
- When Abbott stated openly that his plan involved a new tax of 1.7% on large companies with big profit margins - those, in fact, most able to pay - he provoked a near universal shitstorm.
- 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32:
- Russian: срач
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