a messy situation, especially involving drunkenness and partying(The primary cause of the customer directed apathy was the servers' preoccupations with getting drunk and creating a script for the nightly shit show.wiktionary.org • Things can't possibly be so bad at work that you'd volunteer for another trip to this shit show.
); something that is chaotic, contentious, or unpleasant to an excessive or absurd degree(such as an event or a situation • And while shouting yourself hoarse might not change what the Chicago organizers call "the shit show that is American politics," it could be pretty cathartic. (Drew Schwartz)merriam-webster.com • "… one day, you wake up and have hundreds of people working for you and it's kind of working and it's really hard to imagine how something like that couldn't be a complete shit show." (Andrew Mason) • "Your relationship wasn't going to be a magical fantasy," he says. "It was going to be a shitshow." (Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya) • … Public Enemy's … return … is one of few bright spots in a shit-show of a year. (Jacinta Howard) • I'm a therapist who helps people learn to be resilient in the face of life's uncertainties. But even I catch myself feeling anxious about how to stay motivated when I'm feeling down—especially in the shit-show that is dating in New York. (Megan Bruneau))
a chaotic or disastrous situation(When one of our friends turns 21, the night usually ends up being a shitshow, and we're all hungover the next morning.thefreedictionary.com • None of us were prepared for the boss's questions, and the meeting became a real shitshow.)