shitstorm
nounEtymology From shit + storm.
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Derogatory, Slang, Vulgar A chaotic and unpleasant or violent situation.
- The hell with Brown […] He's been missing all the shit storms. It's his turn.1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead:
- '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'.1963, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 110, in Cat's Cradle:
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- “...seem’s he’s been tumbling ass over teakettle—though there’s no way to tell in this murky shitstorm, no visual references...”1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow, Part I:
- "You and your cowboys just stirred up a shitstorm, agent."1999, Joseph Finder, High Crimes:
- In Baltimore, the general rule is that if something looks like a shitstorm, smells like a shitstorm and tastes like a shitstorm, it goes to homicide.2006, David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets:
- Near-synonyms: blowback, fallout
- 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
- Related terms
- cook up a storm, shit-stirrer