Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general derog. term: disgusting, unattractive, unkempt; also as adj.

1975		N. De Mille Smack Man (1991) 118: The girl who had sold him the goddamn piece-of-shit air conditioner.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 112: He’s trying to reopen that old-piece-of-shit case.
1986		C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 19: That piece-of-shit rag newspaper you used to work for finally printed something intelligent this morning.
1987		(con. 1970s) J. Pistone Donnie Brasco (2006) 282: At least nobody else will get stuck with this piece-of-shit transmitter.
1992		R. Price Clockers 39: Some piece-of-shit number-three man on a homicide.
2002		D.H. Sterry Chicken (2003) 51: If my painintheassbastard husband thinks I’m gonna save his piece-of-shit dinner party, he can kiss my ass.
2010		(con. 1973) C. Stella Johnny Porno 45: Go get in your piece-of-shit car and get lost.
2012		C. Black ‘Topless Vampire Bitches’ in C. Rhatigan and N. Bird (eds) Pulp Ink 2 [ebook] hence Harry funding the piece-of-shit film, anything to keep her busy.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 316: ‘Take the thing out of circulation and I’m square with your piece-of-shit father’.
2017		S.M. Jones August Snow [ebook] ‘Her piece-of-shit father and her controlling bitch of a mother’.
2020		D. Winslow ‘Broken’ in Broken 28: A pistol — a piece-of-shit old .25.