Meaning of shithole | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The anus.
   derogatory, literally, vulgar
2. A wretched or despicable person.
   derogatory, literally, vulgar
3. A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.
   derogatory, literally, vulgar
4. A very dirty, poor, and unpleasant place.
   derogatory, figuratively, literally, vulgar
5. A dysfunctional state.
   derogatory, figuratively, literally, vulgar

Equivalents

Examples

“"You know," he said at last, "I wish you'd just look how that little dog's shithole opens up every time he barks."”

““When it come,” Jamal said, “we just gotta pray suckas don't go mad dog—tearin' each other whole new shitholes.””

“. In 'The Shit Sermon', where a drunk delivers a philippic against Bombay, shit pervades the text, and is in fact irreverently correlated with God: God is great, he says. He has given all his creatures, great and small, two holes: a feedhole and a shithole, and he will provide .”

“. "What a sorry-looking son-of-a-bitch," said one of the officers. "We aren't going to win this war with shitholes like this out there."”

“That girl, I've known her since we were teenagers, a sweeter, more innocent decent girl you couldn't wish to find .And you've dirtied her, you shithole.”

“He did it by finding the best. The players that other teams had forgotten, ignored or dismissed as past their best. Then I would scream, kick their arses, motivate the shitholes and care for them in equal measures.”

“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?”

“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'.”

“Too tired to run anymore. Hungry for the end. His feet scrambled. Like a cat digging a shithole.”

“Two of them were dragging a new member of the dead towards the cart by the shithole.”

“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."”

“Isn't it enough I sit in this shithole week after week?— wanting to go home and knowing there's not a damn thing to go home to?”

““What is this shithole?” General Villa was disgusted with his accommodations.”

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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