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- noun vulgar A
violent situation. - noun idiomatic, vulgar Considerable
backlash from the public.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“A shitstorm is itself the exercise of free speech.”
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The American people need to know that a shitstorm is coming their way.
Matthew Yglesias » Presidents Shape Their Circumstances 2010
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A shitstorm is itself the exercise of free speech.
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I guess I'm just talking about staying true to his comedic voice in the midst of whatever shitstorm is around him (which he has been incredibly successful at these days), not just about success in terms of new contracts and tv shows
Conan O’Brien Comedy Tour May Spawn Documentary | /Film 2010
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This shitstorm is the direct and predictable result of conservative ideology: the belief that all the evil in the world results from evil dictators running strong governments, and that if you just invade, kill the dictator, and eviscerate the government, and send in big corporate cronies on multibillion-dollar contracts to build oil refineries and gated housing complexes, then everything else will be just hunky-dory and you’ll have Southern California in no time.
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It's called a shitstorm, and we all are good at this.
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So it wasn't a software problem at all, and the resulting "shitstorm" (Winer's term) grew and grew.
If Apple wants to be a major player it needs to start behaving like one 2010
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Make no mistake, we are going into (pardon the language) a "shitstorm" in and around Ramadi.
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I wonder what kind of shitstorm would ensue if Al Franken said something like that on the air?
Think Progress » Radio host releases congressional ‘assassination’ schedule. 2007
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In a post about Disney's adaptation of C.S. Lewis 'The Narnia Chronicles, Maud predicts that a "shitstorm" will greet the film's release.
Blog Reviews 2005
oroboros commented on the word shitstorm
Wouldn't wanna get caught out in one of those!!
July 20, 2007
michaelt42 commented on the word shitstorm
The German Scheissensturm exists but just doesn't get used. Warum?
June 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word shitstorm
"The jury said in a statement on Monday: 'Shitstorm fills a gap in the German vocabulary that has become apparent through changes in the culture of public debate.'”
- DPA, Shitstorm 'best English gift to German language', 13 Feb 2012.
June 9, 2012
slumry commented on the word shitstorm
And it sounds like a German word to boot...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/world/europe/merkel-storm-translation-germany.html
December 6, 2018