Meanings
- slangAn excited utterance used to convey disappointment, particularly as a euphemism for shit.
Shazbot, I missed!
1978 February 28, “My Favorite Orkan”, in Happy Days, season 5, episode 22, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams)2 more examples
I spent the next frantic seconds (felt like a year, actually) trying to disentangle myself from the pole while the crowd and the contestants guffawed. Shazbot!
2005 December 29, Diablo Cody, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper, Gotham, →ISBN, →OL, page 26When I lurch back toward where I can make out what CNN is saying, CNN has broken for commercial. Shazbot!
2011 May 10, Roy Blount Jr., Alphabetter Juice: or, The Joy of Text, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →OL, page 149
Origin
Popularised by the character Mork (played by Robin Williams) on the American television sitcom Mork & Mindy (1978).
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