shithole

Noun

shithole (plural shitholes)

1. (derogatory, literally, vulgar) The anus.
   • "You know," he said at last, "I wish you'd just look how that little dog's shithole opens up every time he barks."1987, Charles East, The New writers of the South: a fiction anthology, page 187
   • “When it come,” Jamal said, “we just gotta pray suckas don't go mad dog—tearin' each other whole new shitholes.”2011, Robert Gleason, End of Days: A Novel, →ISBN
   1. (derogatory, literally, vulgar) A wretched or despicable person.
      • . "What a sorry-looking son-of-a-bitch," said one of the officers. "We aren't going to win this war with shitholes like this out there."1999, Fall to Grace, →ISBN, page 228
      • That girl, I've known her since we were teenagers, a sweeter, more innocent decent girl you couldn't wish to find. And you've dirtied her, you shithole.2012, Michael J., Quadrangulation, →ISBN
2. (derogatory, literally, vulgar) A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.
   • Perhaps Derrida is recalling Rembrandt's drawing Abraham's Sacrifice. If this is the work of art, why "tear it to pieces" (dechirer) and ram it down the shithole? Is Abraham, father of the Jewish faith, a shit, perhaps the shit that the System proper must flush away?1987, Mark C. Taylor, Altarity, →ISBN, page 3
   • Two Roman soldiers digging latrines joke about later recounting the experience to their children back home, the ritual of having 'dug a shithole on the edge of the world'.1989, John Orr, Tragic Drama and Modern Society, →ISBN, page 279
   1. (derogatory, figuratively, literally, vulgar) A very dirty, poor, and unpleasant place.
      • Isn't it enough I sit in this shithole week after week?— wanting to go home and knowing there's not a damn thing to go home to?1952, Ralph Leveridge, Walk on the water, page 157
      • “What is this shithole?” General Villa was disgusted with his accommodations.2010, Neftalí G. García, The Mexican Revolution: Legacy of Courage, →ISBN, page 104
   2. (derogatory, figuratively, literally, vulgar) A dysfunctional state.
      • God is pulling me up and up and away from this shithole of a life, and as I get pulled up through the water I think, Mum and Dad, I'll miss you.2009, Duncan Sarkies, Two Little Boys, →ISBN
      • The economy is in the shithole, unemployment is 30-something %, I have no savings, no alternate plan . . . and I'rn going to quit my job. And you know what? It's going to feel damned good.2011, John Milius, Raymond Benson, Homefront: The Voice of Freedom, →ISBN, page 13