shithole /ˈʃɪt.hoʊl/ noun5 •(vulgar, offensive) A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.Two Roman soldiers digging latrines joke about later recounting the experience to their children back home, the ritual of having 'dug a shithole on the edge of the world'. — 1989 •(vulgar, offensive) A very dirty, poor, and unpleasant place.Isn't it enough I sit in this shithole week after week?— wanting to go home and knowing there's not a damn thing to go home to? — 1952 •(vulgar, offensive) The anus."You know," he said at last, "I wish you'd just look how that little dog's shithole opens up every time he barks." — 1987 •(disapproving, vulgar) A dysfunctional state.God is pulling me up and up and away from this shithole of a life, and as I get pulled up through the water I think, Mum and Dad, I'll miss you. — 2009 •(vulgar, offensive) A wretched or despicable person.. "What a sorry-looking son-of-a-bitch," said one of the officers. "We aren't going to win this war with shitholes like this out there." — 1999 formsshitholes