crapgasm
nounEtymology From crap + -gasm.
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Derogatory, Slang Something that is exaggerated and made to be a bigger problem than it actually is.
- Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms.2010 August 30, Charlie Brooker, “Buzzwords for blowhards”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 May 2023:
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Derogatory, Slang Something that is very messy or low-quality.
- I’m having cleaning delusions, and I may even get to some of them before we take off on Friday, but in the meantime, I’ve got the stranger, my house crapgasm, and my complete embarrassment.2011 September 1, Amy Lane, “Desperate Porn-Writing Housewives”, in greenshill.com, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2024:
- Every character was well-drawn and believable in motivations and conflicts, and — wonder of wonders — a fight that involved a dozen different and distinct characters wasn’t a headache-inducing crapgasm of flash and sound.2016 May 11, Nathan Shumate, “Movies Seen Recently: Feast, The Martian, Captain America: Civil War”, in NathanShumate.com, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2017:
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- The apparent fact is: Chegg bought RefMe for the EXCLUSIVE purposes of pulling competition off the market, and trying to funnel RefMe’s user base into their premium crapgasm.2017 March 8, James, Honesty, honestly…, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2025:
- Related terms
- make a mountain out of a molehill