shitholes

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
   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
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
   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
   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