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From shit +‎ load.

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shitload (plural shitloads)

  1. (vulgar, slang) A large amount.
    • 1974 February 7, Andrew Bergman, directed by Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles, spoken by Taggart (Slim Pickens):
      Anybody got a dime? [...] Somebody's gotta go back and get a shitload o' dimes!
    • 1980, Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Used Cars:
      Roy Fuchs' Assistant: I just heard there's a shitload of used cars coming this way.
    • 1986 December 21, Walta Borawski, “Wendell (review)”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 10:
      With his ear for absurdity and his shitload of compassion, Howard Cruse does for us in cartoons what Armistead Maupin does for us in serial installments.

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