shithouse

American  

[shit-hous] / ˈʃɪtˌhaʊs /

noun

Slang: Vulgar.

PLURAL

shithouses

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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idioms

1. 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.

Etymology

Origin of shithouse

First recorded in 1910–15; shit + house

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From New York Times

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.”

From New York Times