shit show
/ʃɪt ʃoʊ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: shitstorm, clown show (degrees of tragedy or dark comedy vary across instances); clusterfuck, debacle, fiasco, hot mess, omnishambles, perfect storm"
- "The government's enforcement crackdown derailed, morphing from a firm hand into a shit show."
- "[…] it was feared that the defendant would not be fit to attend the trial during the whole day. On 22 June 1973 the applicant again refused to attend the trial. She had therefore to be taken handcuffed to the courtroom. There she insulted the presiding judge saying: "There is that swine again. We don't want this shit-show any longer …" She was then excluded from the trial during the taking of evidence."
- "I was too busy helping Laura clean up for this shit show."
- "Things can't possibly be so bad at work that you'd volunteer for another trip to this shit show."
- "We won't be going to those parties anymore if they're not going to be anything better than a shit show full of shitfaced debauchery."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ʃɪt ʃoʊ/