shit adv.
1. as an intensifier extremely, very, completely, certainly.
Swag, the Spy and the Soldier in Lehmann Penguin New Writing No. 26 49: I’m shit out, see? Ain’t got bugger all. | ||
Down These Mean Streets (1970) 254: No, you, amigo, you were shit in luck. | ||
Thumb Tripping (1971) 139: Well you shit got pregnant every time we had some. | ||
Erections, Ejaculations etc. 399: A gift from the heavens on a shit rainy day. | ||
Muvver Tongue 41: To have a piece of good fortune is to be ‘shit-lucky’. | ||
Broken Arse II i: No. Shit no. Hey sorry about that swearing. | ||
Dolores Claiborne 113: ‘First you’re gonna promise me you’ll leave Selena alone,’ I said, ‘so we can put this shit-miserable business behind us.’. | ||
Vinnie Got Blown Away 74: Most cons are shit soft. | ||
Can’t Be Satisfied 259: ‘We didn't get paid nothing. Shit no’. | ||
Price You Pay 226: Shit strong coffee. |
2. badly, unsuccessfully.
Dead Man’s Trousers 10: — How’s that gaun? [...] — So-so, I admit, although shit would be better. |
In compounds
(US) certainly, definitely; also as adj., certain.
letter 29 Oct. in Harris (1993) 341: I will shit sure avail myself. | ||
Naked Lunch (1968) 123: When his neck snaps, this character will shit-sure come to rhythmic attention. | ||
Castle Keep (1966) 186: That’s shit sure. | ||
(con. 1960) My Secret Hist. (1990) 177: One thing’s for shit-sure [...] I ain’t going in no fucking army. |
In phrases
(US) at the end of one’s good fortune, in serious trouble with no escape.
in Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 433: Too old to fuck, too proud to suck, / Just two rotten whoors, shit out of luck! | ||
Anecdota Americana II 118: They break just the same, and / You’re shit out of luck. | ||
Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 53: If you get tired of climbing you are shit out of luck. | ||
in Limerick (1953) 236: The wife of an athlete named Chuck / Found her married life shit-out-of-luck. | ||
From Here to Eternity (1998) 851: ‘Yeah,’ somebody hollered, ‘but what if they aint?’ ‘Then you’re shit out of luck,’ Warden said. | ||
(con. early 1950s) Valhalla 72: They’re shit out of luck. | ||
(con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 26: You’re shit outa luck. | ||
Pagan Game (1969) 158: He’s been a bit of a tin-bum [...] Not like me. I’m always shit out of luck. | ||
Suicide Hill 7: [I]nstitutionalized bulls and cons who didn't know they'd be shit out of luck without each other. | ||
Streets Above Us (1991) 87: He needs a seven to get out of jail. They land a six, shit out, no good. | ||
Alt. Eng. Dict. 🌐 shit out of luck (preposition phrase?, idiom) really out of luck. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 186: shit out of Missing something, maybe luck. | ||
Our Town 293: If you don’t have a Klagraff, you’re shit out of luck. | ||
Pulp Ink [ebook] If Yuri’s needs stretched much beyond patting people down he was shit out of luck with Dancing Bear. | ‘Requiem for Spider’ in||
Baltimore Sun (MD) 22 Apr. T58/3: ‘If my neighbor can’t pay for it, she’s shit out of luck’. |