metric shitload
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Me, I spent it fantasizing about the future, airbrushing an old dream that had only required a metric shitload of cash."
- "Lifer karma, that's what it was, and I'd apparently accumulated a metric shitload of it."
- "“And then, because that wasn't enough,” he went on, “I got a credit card and bought a metric shitload of DVDs so that she could pick the one she wanted to watch. […]“"
- "So SPOOKS is basically a tool that permits an electronic intelligence agency to run a metric shitload of unwitting human intelligence agents, weekend spies."
- "To his human mind, nothing here made sense. It was like that old game: One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong. But it wasn't just one thing. It was a metric shitload of things. It was all things."
- "“I refuse to speculate: It's unprofessional, and besides, she might have had a perfectly innocent reason for owning a metric shitload of cancelled bank-notes in an obsolete currency. […]“"
Etymology
Jocular extension of shitload (“a very large amount”), absurdly treating it as a unit of measurement (which could have a metric counterpart). Regarding the synonymous phrases a shitload of and a ton of, the coordination of ton versus metric ton is most likely the precedent by which shitload versus metric shitload was jocularly inspired; compare also metric fuckton.