shitstream
shitstream noun: a disgusting or contemptible stream (in various senses).
Noun
shitstream (plural shitstreams)
- A disgusting or contemptible stream (in various senses).
- As for the bloated losers, with the Arctic in their lungs, Zack Robertts felt himself among them, going down the shitstream of the Harlem, the Hudson, and George Washington's Potomac, which was why he was presently thanking goodness for the CIA.1977, Robert Katz, Ziggurat, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 70
- Institutionalized racism against blacks in America has deep and unarguable historic roots, of course, and there's no denying that blacks, especially young black males, are stuck at the bottom of the socioeconomic shitstream.1994, Gene Santoro, Dancing in Your Head: Jazz, Blues, Rock and Beyond, New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 122
Examples of shitstream in a sentence
- If you're a regular "SoundBites" reader, you know that the never-ending shitstream of disco-beat post-punk revivalists (Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, et al.) makes our skin crawl.2006 November 24, Will Spitz, “SoundBites”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume XXXV, number 48, Boston, M.A.: The Phoenix Media/Communications...
- Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […]2015, Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes, New York, N.Y. […]: Infinitum Nihil/Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 397:
Forms of shitstream
| plural | shitstreams |
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Origin of shitstream
Compound of shit + stream.
Questions about shitstream
- What does shitstream mean?
- Shitstream means a disgusting or contemptible stream (in various senses).
- How do you use shitstream in a sentence?
- If you're a regular "SoundBites" reader, you know that the never-ending shitstream of disco-beat post-punk revivalists (Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, et al.) makes our skin crawl.
- What part of speech is shitstream?
- Shitstream is a noun.
- What is the plural of shitstream?
- The plural of shitstream is shitstreams.
Words near shitstream in the dictionary
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