Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an intensified query; var. on what the hell...? phr.

1968		G. Cuomo Among Thieves 307: What the livin’ shit you on strike for, man?
1998		P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 164: What the shit’s going on?
2000		P. Cornwell Last Precinct 344: What the shit’s going on?
2013		Chicago Trib. 17 Mar. FICT-10: ‘What the shit happened?’.