A shit-ton is an extremely large quantity of something. It has not yet been added to any respectable dictionary that I can find, but is not an uncommon expression to see. My guess is that this word is a conflation of “ton” and “shitload”, and doesn’t appear to have been around for very long. It may, in fact, simply be another creation of the internet.
I love “shit-ton” because of the rarity of those back-to-back T’s. The advantage in this instance is that shit-ton must be spoken clearly in two full syllables. You cannot simply roll through those T’s without THINKING about them. And because we must speak “shit-ton” slowly, it seems to carry more weight. It is an expression with a shit-ton of meaning.
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