Green’s Dictionary of Slang

worthless, useless; see also under worth a... phr.

[1862		q. in Wiley Life of Billy Yank (1952) 199: You ain’t worth a pinch of shit].
1954		G. Lamming Emigrants (1980) 65: You get dis thing an’ den you find out [...] it ain’t worth two shits.
1955		Kerouac letter 2 Jan. in Charters I (1995) 483: Now that I know the truth and that it isnt worth a shit whats the difference whether I do or dont?
1965		S. Yurick Warriors (1966) 99: None of them could control their women one shit-worth.
1975		J. Wambaugh Choirboys (1976) 42: It’s your life. If it ain’t worth a shit to you, it ain’t worth a shit to us.
1978		J. Webb Fields of Fire (1980) 21: Why the hell would he be in a movie in the afternoon if he’s worth a shit.
1980		J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 234: A lot of these black ones ain’ worth shit, either.
1982		G.V. Higgins Patriot Game (1985) 203: Only one of those kids worth shit and he enlists in the fuckin’ army [...] and gets shot down over Vietnam.
1984		Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 4 July We waited one hour to get on the Grand Canyon ride and found out it wasn’t worth two shits.
1991		B. Quinn Smokey Hollow 26: Dommo, you’re not worth a shit.
2000		M. Collins Keepers of Truth 8: How my college degree wasn’t worth shit.
2012		T. Piccirilli Last Kind Words 285: ‘I don’t get it. They’re not worth shit’.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 142: [W]e’ve got nothing worth a shit.