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Meaning of shitstream | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A disgusting or contemptible stream (in various senses).

vulgar

Examples

“As for the bloated losers, with the Arctic in their lungs, Zack Robertts felt himself among them, going down the shitstream of the Harlem, the Hudson, and George Washington's Potomac, which was why he was presently thanking goodness for the CIA.”
“Institutionalized racism against blacks in America has deep and unarguable historic roots, of course, and there's no denying that blacks, especially young black males, are stuck at the bottom of the socioeconomic shitstream.”
“If you're a regular "SoundBites" reader, you know that the never-ending shitstream of disco-beat post-punk revivalists (Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, et al.) makes our skin crawl.”
“Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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