Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Used to intensify a verb with a personal object or a past participle modifying a personal noun or pronoun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective vulgar Having an
empty bowel ; greatlyfrightened ; see usage notes below.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely frightened
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They took the East because Hitler had scared Stalin shitless, and he decided that in the future he would fight the Germans in Warsaw rather than Kiev.
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Seth Wright says brands like Bud and Coors are scared 'shitless' as the craft beer world explodes.
Steve Rosenbaum: The People Powered Web Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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Seth Wright says brands like Bud and Coors are scared 'shitless' as the craft beer world explodes.
Steve Rosenbaum: The People Powered Web Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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What scared me witless recently, not to be uncouth and say 'shitless', was to look at a topographical representation of the society outlined in Orwell's 1984, delineating the small proportion of 'inner party' as '2\%' - and thinking of the 'trickle down' theory of economics deployed as rationale for tax cuts in the
CounterPunch 2008
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Sitting with my buddies in a dark room illuminated only by the light of the tube, I watched with a stern determination to hide the fact I was scared shitless.
Why Write Horror? 2009
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Sitting with my buddies in a dark room illuminated only by the light of the tube, I watched with a stern determination to hide the fact I was scared shitless.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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He was also scared shitless -- he was facing up to 30 years in prison.
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega: The "Texas Two": How Did Two All-American Boys From Midland Texas Wind Up Charged with Domestic Terrorism? Katie Galloway 2011
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I was seven -- and hipless -- the first time, scared shitless and moving to an island where the sun never shines.
Gemma de Choisy: Confessions of a Dual Citizen Gemma de Choisy 2011
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He was also scared shitless -- he was facing up to 30 years in prison.
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega: The "Texas Two": How Did Two All-American Boys From Midland Texas Wind Up Charged with Domestic Terrorism? Katie Galloway 2011
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He was also scared shitless -- he was facing up to 30 years in prison.
Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega: The "Texas Two": How Did Two All-American Boys From Midland Texas Wind Up Charged with Domestic Terrorism? Katie Galloway 2011
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