shark week
shark week noun: the week during which someone menstruates.
Noun
shark week (countable and uncountable, plural shark weeks)
- The week during which someone menstruates.
- There are several ways to green your Shark Week, ranging from bare-minimum "shucks, why not?" consciousness to Burning Man aggro hippie.2008, Coco Tanaka, "Shark Week!", LA CityBeat, Volume 6, Number 36, 4 September 2008 - 10 September 2008, page 17
- If you've booked a hotel room, STAIN, and it's shark week for the wife, or a certain former senator drops in (drops out?) when you have anal sex, there's always the option of bringing your own santorum- and/or menstrual-blood-coloured/stained towels from home.2012, Dan Savage, "Hotel room clean-up", Now (Toronto), Volume 31, Number 29, 15 March 2012 - 21 March 2012, page 102
- Synonyms:
- Aunt Flo, Aunt Frieda, Aunt Rose, blob, blood sports, Bloody Mary, blowjob week, breaching the beaver dam, catamenia, caught short
Synonyms of shark week
- Aunt Flo
- Aunt Frieda
- Aunt Rose
- blob
- blood sports
- Bloody Mary
- blowjob week
- breaching the beaver dam
- catamenia
- caught short
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- Charlie
- closed for maintenance
- come crook
- country cousin
- crimson tide
- crimson wave
- curse
- curse of Eve
- curse of Tom
- dropping clots
- entertaining the general
- fallen to the Communists
- fall off the roof
- flowers
- flashing the red flag
- flying baker
- flying the red flag
- friend
- grandma George
- granny
- granny grunts
- have the painters in
- have one's moons
- have the rag on
- high tide
- holy week
- illness
- in the red tent
- Jennie
- lady problems
Forms of shark week
| plural | shark weeks |
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Origin of shark week
A jocular reference to Shark Week, an annual week-long marathon of shark-related programming on Discovery Channel, which, like a menstrual period, is bloody.
Questions about shark week
- What does shark week mean?
- Shark week means the week during which someone menstruates.
- What part of speech is shark week?
- Shark week is a noun.
- What is the plural of shark week?
- The plural of shark week is shark weeks.
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