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pants-shittingly

Definitions

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  • adverb slang, vulgar In a manner, or to a degree, capable of causing one to soil oneself in fear; terrifyingly.

Etymologies

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From the phrase shit one's pants.

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Examples

  • (This is why the series finale of “Six Feet Under” is the most pants-shittingly awesome episode of television, ever, and the last ten minutes of “The Sopranos” is essentially believed to be an act of aggression against decent American people.) [Also why the final episode of "Battlestar Galactica" makes us FUCKING HOMICIDAL. -- ed.]

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • (This is why the series finale of “Six Feet Under” is the most pants-shittingly awesome episode of television, ever, and the last ten minutes of “The Sopranos” is essentially believed to be an act of aggression against decent American people.) [Also why the final episode of "Battlestar Galactica" makes us FUCKING HOMICIDAL. -- ed.]

    Special Guest Post: Chérie l'Ecrivain Has Some Metal Writing Advice For You 2010

  • I loved Michael J. Fox's pants-shittingly funny double-take when he noticed a band onstage in 1885 who looked and performed just like ZZ Top.

    PopMatters 2009

  • It's not very big, either, so it's not like it's going to eat you; it's just got these messed-up spines and if you accidentally step on it, you're just about guarranteed a pants-shittingly painful death.

    FAZED 2009

  • I loved Michael J. Fox's pants-shittingly funny double-take when he noticed a band onstage in 1885 who looked and performed just like ZZ Top.

    PopMatters 2009

  • While Paddy's day is about drinking, it's not a free pass to get pants-shittingly wasted.

    Starpulse Entertainment News 2009

  • The gobsmacking foolishness of our national discourse, the things which now seem to signify, the very person selected to act out these psychodramas on the national stage - these are all far surer signs that the future is deeply, and I mean pants-shittingly, terrifying to many Americans.

    Worldchanging: Bright Green 2008

  • If the footage was real, and not a meretricious attempt to distort actual facts, then it’s pants-shittingly good.

    Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers 2009

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