real shitland
- noun
- Offensive
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lugar de mierda
- She referred to her old neighborhood as a real shitland because of its crime and decay.
Examples
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I can't believe we have to live in this real shitland.
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This town is a real shitland!
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After moving there, he realized he was living in a real shitland with almost no basic services.
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Many people consider the abandoned factory district to be a real shitland at night.
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After moving there, he realized he was living in a real shitland with almost no basic services.
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Many people consider the abandoned factory district to be a real shitland at night.
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She referred to her old neighborhood as a real shitland because of its crime and decay.
Synonyms
51
7.9
A very dirty, unpleasant, and dangerous place
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7.0
An unpleasant run-down place where few people want to live
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9.9
A very far away empty place with nothing there
A rude name for parts of a city that are poor and run-down
A place that is very dirty and full of trash and bad smells
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Morphology
real + shitland
The phrase is a straightforward compound: 'shit' (vulgar negative evaluation) + 'land' (place), with 'real' functioning as an intensifier, so the sense 'a very shitty/unpleasant place' is directly derivable from the parts. Although slang and vulgar, the morphology is compositional and follows common patterns for creating place nouns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Real shitland comes from strong slang: people use shit to call something very bad and adding land makes it a whole place. So, imagine a town full of rubbish, crime and broken buildings — that's why it means 'an extremely undesirable or unpleasant place'.