shit adj.
1. (orig. US) applied to any thing or person considered bad, obnoxious, unpleasant, inferior, worthless, e.g. a shit teacher.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | letter 23 May in Baker Sel. Letters (1981) 162: All criticism is shit anyway. | |
| letter 24 June in Charters I (1995) 320: Lucien thinks it’s shit. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Billy Liar (1962) 181: You think you’re it but you’re shit! | |
| Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 143: Fucking shit cunt, Jumbo! | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 212: Someone figured it for a shit detail. | |
| Kings Road 211: Get over here fast, and cool that shit talk! | |
| Choirboys (1976) 139: People are shit. They’re scum. | |
| Close Pursuit (1988) 31: She wasn’t going to take no shit duty from no mick dick. | |
| Yes We have No 141: Shit is his life, but his life’s not shit. | |
| Grits 98: Sieffri, yer know ow shit ee is at pool, ee was on-a cunt all-a fuckin time. | |
| Nature Girl 21: It was a shit job, anyway. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Intractable [ebook] He was a first-timer doing a shit lagging who had been thrown into the deep end. | |
| Guardian 8 Aug. 🌐 How about you go and pay rent to the landlord, earn shit money doing a labouring job. | |
| Panopticon (2013) 159: How come the nice people always get the shit nick. | |
| (con. 1943) Coorparoo Blues [ebook] ‘They were useless, utter shit’. | |
 | ‘Houston’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] [She] could only find talk stations and shit classic rock. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Glorious Heresies 10: She was shit at cleaning. | |
| Observer (London) New Rev. 19 Feb. 7/3: ‘Even if I was the shittest prick on earth’. | |
| Silver [ebook] ‘I don’t want anything more to do with this shit town and that shitty hostel’. | |
| Razorblade Tears 88: ‘We was both shit parents’. | |
| Braywatch 70: ‘You were a shit teacher and now you’re a shit headmaster’. | |
| Stoning 24: ‘Shit car, mister!’. |
2. untidy, unkempt.
| Owning Up (1974) 99: We could dress in shit order, fall about drunk, and tell people who criticized us or our music to get stuffed. |
3. on the bad = good model, excellent, first-rate.
| (con. 1982–6) Cocaine Kids (1990) 112: So, sure to hell, he tells me I wasn’t shit, that I was fucking around. | |
| Guardian Rev. 8 Oct. 21: DJ Gregg has [...] a Peavey bass guitar he says is ‘really shit’. | |
| Guardian Guide 1–6 Jan. 18: This serious ill shit bit of kit. |
4. (UK black) any.
| Dirty South 44: I ain’t got shit qualifications. |