rude slang A chaotic or disastrous situation. When one of our friends turns 21, the night usually ends up being a shitshow, and we're all hungover the next morning. None of us were prepared for the boss's questions, and the meeting became a real shitshow.
1893: A scathing critique by women's rights crusader Matilda Joslyn Gage exposes the witch trials as, in one author's words, "a misogynist shitshow.
A third House member simply predicted "a total shitshow.
Some lawmakers anticipate "trench warfare," others "a total shitshow.
And maybe it's not the absolute shitshow of a tragedy that it seems.