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shithouse
noun- a toilet bowl; a toilet; a lavatory UK, 1795
- And I saw the Southern white man who has nothing between him and the lowest Negro except a segregated toilet. No wonder so many of them have shithouse ways. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 170, 1964
- I wondered how some guys could take the chance of cooking up and shooting up in any public place like a shithouse[.] — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 117, 1967
- The sound of the Temps still gitting away in the Gumbo House seeped into the shithouse. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 6, 1969
- Well I might not look like much, but no son of a bitch tells me to get my ass out of a public shithouse, you son of a bitch. — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 192, 1970
- So I reached in my slide and came out with two boss threes / And said “Here, girl, go to the shithouse and get the weakness out of your knees.” — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 52, 1976
- Stick your head down the shithouse and drink out of that. — Donald Catchlove, Ray Denning My Life and Time, 1994
- a shoddy, dirty, unpleasant place US, 1973
- “But if you work in a shithouse like this for a while, you can go to any precinct and it would look great.” — L.H. Whittemore, Cop!, p. 19, 1969
- At the same time he didn’t want to wind up in a “shithouse” precinct like the two-eight (Twenty-eighth) or the two-five (Twenty-fifth). — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 122, 1973
- I’d have had you live like–like somebody. Not in this shithouse. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 362, 1979
- jail or prison US
- I thought, “If someone had told me a year ago I’d be back in a shit-house, I’d have thought he was nuts.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 243, 1969
- an extremely unpleasant individual UK
- Mind you, he was a shithouse with me mother. — Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash, The Royle Family, 1999
- Fella’s properly a shithouse. He’s just a horrible fucking wretch[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 88, 2001
- a coward UK
- To be fair, he’s never said he’s hard, Paul–but he is a bit of a shithouse. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 66, 2002
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to hell AUSTRALIA- Mouche freaked out to the shithouse. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 99, 1987
- One time them Afghans found all this pork and bacon on their camels and chucked the lot to the shithouse. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 93, 1994
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