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shithouse

[ shit-hous ]

noun

, Slang: Vulgar.
, plural shit·hous·es [shit, -hou-ziz].
  1. a privy; outhouse.
  2. a terrible, filthy, poor, or low-quality thing or place (often used attributively): The studio will keep churning out shithouse sequels as long as people buy tickets to see them.

    Ugh, you wouldn’t believe the rat-infested shithouse she was living in.

    The studio will keep churning out shithouse sequels as long as people buy tickets to see them.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of shithouse1

First recorded in 1910–15; shit + house
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. be built like a brick shithouse, Slang: Vulgar. (of a person) to be big, solid, or muscular:

    The other guy in the fight was built like a brick shithouse.

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Example Sentences

Putin used the same Russian verb in 1999 about Chechen militants, vowing to "wipe out them out in the shithouse", remarks that became a widely quoted emblem of his severe persona.

From Reuters

The resulting movie, “Shithouse,” a professionally made version of his original student film, won the grand jury prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival in 2020 and sold to IFC Films.

When Cooper Raiff won the grand jury prize at the South By Southwest Film Festival in 2020 with his film “Shithouse,” there was no in-person event to attend due to the pandemic.

Shithouse Rated R. First rule of college: Drink water before passing out.

From a summary, the movie — which Raiff wrote and directed, in his feature debut — doesn’t sound especially daring, except maybe to my editors, who have agreed to print its title, “Shithouse.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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