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Shitstorm
Shitstorm
See also: shitstorm
German
Noun
Shitstorm m (genitive Shitstorms, plural Shitstorms)
Declension
Declension of Shitstorm
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indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Shitstorm | die | Shitstorms |
genitive | eines | des | Shitstorms | der | Shitstorms |
dative | einem | dem | Shitstorm | den | Shitstorms |
accusative | einen | den | Shitstorm | die | Shitstorms |
See also
- Clickbaiting
- Posting
shitstorm
shitstorm
See also: Shitstorm
English
Noun
shitstorm (plural shitstorms)
- (pejorative, vulgar) A chaotic and unpleasant or violent situation.
- 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
- The **** with Brown [...] He's been missing all the **** storms. It's his turn.
- 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Chapter 110
- '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 '**** storm' and at another point as 'wrath of God'.
- 1999, Joseph Finder, High Crimes
- "You and your cowboys just stirred up a shitstorm, agent."
- 2006, David Simon, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
- 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.
- 1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead
- (idiomatic, vulgar) Considerable backlash from the public.
- 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32:
- 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:
Descendants
- German: Shitstorm
- Polish: gównoburza
Translations
A violent situation.
Considerable backlash.
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