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  • noun slang An event filled with shrieking.

Etymologies

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shriek +‎ -fest

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Examples

  • I'm sure they both needed a cigarette after that shriekfest.

    Lalalalalalalalalalala … I can’t hear youuuuuuu. LuLu 2009

  • If Osama Bin Laden had crashed a 747 on their little shriekfest and killed them all, the average IQ in the United States would have gone up ten or fifteen points, but it still would have been a tragic waste of human life.

    "Million" "Moran" March the rev. paperboy 2009

  • If Osama Bin Laden had crashed a 747 on their little shriekfest and killed them all, the average IQ in the United States would have gone up ten or fifteen points, but it still would have been a tragic waste of human life.

    Archive 2009-09-01 West End Bob 2009

  • I got about a minute into her whiny, self-obsessed, meandering shriekfest before I turned it off to keep myself from piercing my ear drum with an ice pick out a sense of self-preservation.

    Archive 2008-05-01 CC 2008

  • I got about a minute into her whiny, self-obsessed, meandering shriekfest before I turned it off to keep myself from piercing my ear drum with an ice pick out a sense of self-preservation.

    You’re welcome, I’m sure. LuLu 2008

  • It didn't craft the two-party bitch-slap shriekfest of modern news.

    ARTICLE: The Geek Shall Inherit The Earth 2004

  • So I abandoned Maria's shriekfest and watched Ana warm up and hit some serves.

    Forty Deuce 2010

  • So I abandoned Maria's shriekfest and watched Ana warm up and hit some serves.

    Forty Deuce 2010

  • I'm sure they both needed a cigarette after that shriekfest.

    Canadian Cynic 2009

  • His natural home is Daily Kos, the Puffington Host, BarackObama. com or Keith Olbermann’s shriekfest.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

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