shit show
See also: shitshow
English
Alternative forms
- shit-show
- shitshow
Etymology
- shit + show
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʃɪt ʃoʊ/
Noun
shit show (plural shit shows)
- (colloquial, vulgar) A messy situation, especially involving drunkenness and partying.
- 1973, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, pg. 410:
- There is that swine again. We don't want this shit-show any longer...
- 1999, Jamie Harrison, An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence: a Blue Deer mystery, Macmillan, →ISBN, pg. 330:
- I was too busy helping Laura clean up for this shit show.
- 2003, Aironius French, The Adventures of Waiterman, Lord of the Restaurant Jungle, Trafford Publishing, vol. 1, no. 1, →ISBN, pg. 186:
- The primary cause of the customer directed apathy was the servers' preoccupations with getting drunk and creating a script for the nightly shit show.
- 2008, Thomas Holland, KIA: A Dr. Kel McKelvey Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pg. 12:
- Things can't possibly be so bad at work that you'd volunteer for another trip to this shit show.
- 1973, Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, pg. 410: