shiznit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃɪznɪt/
Audio (AU) (file)
Usage notes
This word is particularly associated with African American Vernacular English (Ebonics), but has also entered into other slang varieties.
Quotations
- 1993, Calvin Broadus, Jr., Andre Young, from album Doggystyle, title of song “Tha Shiznit”
- 2000, Adam Sandler, Steven Brill, Tim Herlihy, Little Nicky (film)
- Demon: Popeye’s chicken is the shiznit!
- 2002, Wayne Normis, The Last Street Fighter
- “Okay,” I said, but I was determined that Weasel was going to have to back up his shiznit.
- 2004, Matthew Richard Poole, Frommer's Los Angeles 2005
- If you know what shiznit means then keep reading because you’re already hip enough to appreciate these three late-night L.A. legends.
- 2005, John Edward Lawson, Last Burn in Hell
- “Naw! Hell naw. We’re talkin’ ’bout what this shiznit be worth on the street. Naw mean?”
- 2005, Haydn Sweterlitsch, Notes from Underwhelmed
- “Girl, you just erase that shiznit from ya brains. Barry ever even hears the word ‘digital’ and that muthafucka goes buck wildin’ and shit.[”]
- 2012, Will Smith, Men in Black 3
- Agent J: “You know, I'd have no problem pimp-slapping the shiznit out of Andy Warhol.”
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