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

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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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