"type shit" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} type shit (uncountable)
  1. (in combination, vulgar, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Something resembling or characteristic of a given thing, person, or situation. Tags: in-compounds, uncountable, vulgar
    Sense id: en-type_shit-en-noun-PqvH2LIr Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "That's some serial killer type shit.",
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          "ref": "1998, Danny Hoch, “Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop”, in American Theatre, volume 15, page 44",
          "text": "That’s why my new album, Where Is the Joy, is on some new, improved, extra-ill, enlightened, epiphany-type shit, and that’s all I got to say.",
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          "ref": "2004 April 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Dumbassification”, in The New Yorker",
          "text": "“I think talk radio from a liberal standpoint means that you can actually touch more souls and be more sensitive to a wider demographic, instead of saying, ‘We’re going to turn America into a bonfire pep rally, and if anybody doesn’t like that we’re going to bomb them, too,’” Chuck D said. “I mean, what the fuck is that about? That’s some 1944, ‘Sands of Iwo Jima,’ John Wayne, I’m-mad-at-everybody-else-because-some-black-guy-took-my-girlfriend-type shit.”",
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          "ref": "2022 October 13, Mach-Hommy, Andre Gee, “Don’t Call Mach-Hommy ‘Reclusive’”, in Rolling Stone",
          "text": "That’s like the apex. That’s when it’s like, “Damn.” All the leaves actually done fell and gone type shit. That’s the deep freeze.",
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