Meanings
plural shitbags · alternative shit bag
- vulgarA colostomy bag.
- derogatoryvulgarA worthless or despicable person.
I told him what type of shit bag he was and that if I had not taken a strong liking to him I'd kill him. But he had undone my feelings and I was glad we had never got it on.
1986 February 1, anonymous author, “"Fuck Dolls" Fight Back”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 41 more example
I came across a drunken couple shouting into these machines outside a quayside restaurant. "Shitbag calling fuckface, shitbag calling fuckface, are you receiving me, over?" "Fuckface to shitbag, fuckface to shitbag, I am receiving you, over". […]
1993, Billy Buford with Ryszard Kapuściński, The Best of Granta Reportage, page 187Synonyms: sack of shit, shitsack, assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface
- vulgarThe stomach.
I had to get a hold of this situation in a hurry, so I picked up the baseball bat we used to stun any sharks that came aboard when we were fishing and whacked Foulkes straight in the shit bag. He collapsed on the deck!
2012, Tim Daly, The British Connection: Operation Highlander, Abbott Press, page 16
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA worthless or despicable person.
Origin
From shit + bag. Sense 2 was dysphemistically modelled after scumbag.
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