"shitsheet" meaning in All languages combined

See shitsheet on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: shitsheets [plural]
Etymology: From shit + sheet. Etymology templates: {{af|en|shit|sheet}} shit + sheet Head templates: {{en-noun}} shitsheet (plural shitsheets)
  1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory) A low-quality newspaper. Tags: derogatory, slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-shitsheet-en-noun-d9XhBxGV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1985, “Shock Reports”, in Razzle, volume 3, number 15, page 12:",
          "text": "From time to time, you see the shitsheets basing some unlikely story on \"facts\" gleaned from a statistical questionnaire. You know the stuff: \"Women prefer homosexual men — shocking report!\"",
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          "ref": "1996, Marcus Salisbury, “Days of Whine + Noserings”, in Yobbopolitain, number 8, page 6:",
          "text": "Every year […] we get the usual array of well-dressed, well-meaning types promising to represent the silent majority (and whose team name is eternally followed on Leftie shitsheets by \"Young Liberals\")",
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          "ref": "2010 May 2, Charlie Booker, “Election 2010: Which leader's public persona do you prefer?”, in The Guardian:",
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          "ref": "2023 June 26, Bernard Keane, “Vale Simon Crean — a study in what happens to those who tell the truth”, in Crikey:",
          "text": "But at the time, the smearing and demonisation of Crean was astonishing. Downer suggested he was an appeaser who was “talking like Saddam Hussein”. Andrew Bolt called Crean “Chamberlain”. The Australian and other News Corp shitsheets ran editorial after editorial, op-ed after op-ed, vilifying Crean — who according to The Australian would forever be “associated with the appeasement of tyranny” — and Labor.",
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        "(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A low-quality newspaper."
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              31,
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              170,
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              83,
              93
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              233
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