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shithouse

American

[shit-hous] / ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs /

noun

Slang: Vulgar.

a privy; outhouse.
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.

idioms

be built like a brick shithouse, (of a person) to be big, solid, or muscular.

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

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

shithouses

plural

Etymology

Origin of shithouse

First recorded in 1910–15; shit + house

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