metric fuckton
English
Etymology
See metric ton and fuckton.
Noun
metric fuckton (plural metric fucktons)
- (slang, vulgar) A very large amount.
- 2019, Jarett Kobek, Only Americans Burn in Hell, Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, page 246:
- The whole world cried out, in unison, and demanded that the United States government not kill a metric fuckton of Iraqis. But the Iraqis still died by the metric fuckton.
- 2020, Charles Stross, Dead Lies Dreaming: Book 1 of the New Management, A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 154:
- We don't like the guns, we can't go any further without spending a metric fuckton of money that we don't have, so we're out of the game, yes? Are we all agreed?
- 2020, Lindsay Ellis, Axiom’s End, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 197:
- They don't want a huge lie and a metric fuckton of stupid mistakes to be made public.