Meanings
plural city shitters
- derogatoryvulgarSynonym of city dweller.
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In an early draft of a poem Orlovsky titled “Fertilizer Blues,” which emanated from a page-long diatribe about gardening and New York City being full of shit—human and animal—he sets off the lines “Then I could take on where Chaplin left off—oh, for the life of a city shitter, that’s the life for me—.” The last part of this line hearkens back to Chaplin’s 1952 film Limelight
2016, Haven, Lisa Stein, 1960-, Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp in America, 1947-77, page 68Synonyms: city dweller
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of city dweller.
Origin
Probably from city slicker.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
city shitter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/city%20shitter
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