shitstream

plural shitstreams

1. vulgarA disgusting or contemptible stream (in various senses).

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

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

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   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.

   1977, Robert Katz, Ziggurat, Boston, M.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 70

   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.

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

   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.

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