metric shitload

plural metric shitloads

1. humorousoftenvulgarA very large number or amount.

   Lifer karma, that's what it was, and I'd apparently accumulated a metric shitload of it.

   1987, Robert Merkin, Zombie jamboree: a novel, McGraw-Hill Book Co, →ISBN

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   Me, I spent it fantasizing about the future, airbrushing an old dream that had only required a metric shitload of cash.

   1982, Robert Merkin, The south Florida book of the dead, William Morrow & Co, →ISBN

   “And then, because that wasn't enough,” he went on, “I got a credit card and bought a metric shitload of DVDs so that she could pick the one she wanted to watch. […]“

   2005, Maureen Johnson, The Bermudez Triangle, Penguin, →ISBN

   So SPOOKS is basically a tool that permits an electronic intelligence agency to run a metric shitload of unwitting human intelligence agents, weekend spies.

   2007, Charles Stross, Halting State, Penguin, →ISBN

   To his human mind, nothing here made sense. It was like that old game: One of these things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong. But it wasn't just one thing. It was a metric shitload of things. It was all things.

   2011, Chuck Wendig, Double Dead, Abaddon Books, →ISBN

   “I refuse to speculate: It's unprofessional, and besides, she might have had a perfectly innocent reason for owning a metric shitload of cancelled bank-notes in an obsolete currency. […]“

   2011, Charles Stross, Rule 34, Hachette UK, →ISBN

   Synonyms: metric fuckton, metric shitton, abundance, battalion, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload