See shithole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(literally) A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.",
"(figuratively) A very dirty, poor, and unpleasant place."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "pisshole"
}
],
"tags": [
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"figuratively",
"literally",
"vulgar"
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},
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"ref": "2009, Duncan Sarkies, Two Little Boys, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, John Milius, Raymond Benson, Homefront: The Voice of Freedom, →ISBN, page 13:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2013, M. A. Fricker, Programmed Sheep, →ISBN:",
"text": "Once your two weeks are over, you will soon be back at that shithole of a job, mixing with all the lowlife sheep of this earth.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.",
"A dysfunctional state."
],
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[
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"defecate"
],
[
"dysfunctional",
"dysfunctional"
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"(literally) A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.",
"(figuratively) A dysfunctional state."
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"ref": "1987, Mark C. Taylor, Altarity, →ISBN, page 3:",
"text": "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?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1989, John Orr, Tragic Drama and Modern Society, →ISBN, page 279:",
"text": "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'.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1997, C. N. Hetzner, In the War for Peace: A Novel, page 298:",
"text": "Too tired to run anymore. Hungry for the end. His feet scrambled. Like a cat digging a shithole.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Garry Satherley, The arch-traitor's lament, page 185:",
"text": "Two of them were dragging a new member of the dead towards the cart by the shithole.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Hopeless but Optimistic, →ISBN, page 58:",
"text": "The latrine is bright white and clean to a fault, an almost garish contrast to the dark, hardscrabble forward operating base just beyond the metal doors. The two young soldiers are shaving at the long line of sinks and mirrors. One says, \"Man, I had a dream last night I was in the shithole.\"",
"type": "quote"
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"A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement."
],
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"defecate"
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"(literally) A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement."
],
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shitpit"
},
{
"sense": "censored spellings",
"word": "—hole"
},
{
"word": "----hole"
},
{
"word": "s—hole"
},
{
"word": "s---hole"
},
{
"word": "s***hole"
},
{
"word": "sh-thole"
},
{
"word": "sh!thole"
},
{
"word": "s—thole"
},
{
"word": "s--thole"
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{
"word": "s**thole"
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],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"word": "persläpi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"word": "persereikä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trou à rats"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "trou paumé"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Dreckloch"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kolómeros",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "κωλόμερος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "khor",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "חור"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "mizbalá",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מזבלה"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"word": "szarfészek"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "zadupie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "muquifo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vonjúčaja dyrá",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "воню́чая дыра́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "žópa",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "жо́па"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sránaja dyrá",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "сра́ная дыра́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "govjónnaja dyrá",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "говённая дыра́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "derʹmóvaja dyrá",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "дерьмо́вая дыра́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "жо́па ми́ра (žópa míra) (colloquial, literally \"the ass(hole) of the world\"))",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cuchitril"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "antro"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skitställe"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "dirty or unpleasant place",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "skithål"
}
],
"word": "shithole"
}
Download raw JSONL data for shithole meaning in English (11.1kB)
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