shitstream

English

Etymology

Compound of shit +‎ stream.

Noun

shitstream (plural shitstreams)

1. (vulgar) A disgusting or contemptible stream (in various senses).
   • 1977, Robert Katz, Ziggurat, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 70:

     As for the bloated losers, with the Arctic in their lungs, Zack Robertts felt himself among them, going down the shitstream of the Harlem, the Hudson, and George Washington's Potomac, which was why he was presently thanking goodness for the CIA.

   • 1994, Gene Santoro, Dancing in Your Head: Jazz, Blues, Rock and Beyond, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 122:

     Institutionalized racism against blacks in America has deep and unarguable historic roots, of course, and there's no denying that blacks, especially young black males, are stuck at the bottom of the socioeconomic shitstream.

   • 2006 November 24, Will Spitz, “SoundBites”, in The Boston Phoenix, volume XXXV, number 48, Boston, M.A.: The Phoenix Media/Communications Group, page 4:

     If you're a regular "SoundBites" reader, you know that the never-ending shitstream of disco-beat post-punk revivalists (Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, et al.) makes our skin crawl.

   • 2015, Jonathan Shaw, Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes, New York, N.Y. […]: Infinitum Nihil/Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 397:

     Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […]