type shit

English

Noun

type shit (uncountable)

1. (in combination, vulgar, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Something resembling or characteristic of a given thing, person, or situation.

   That's some serial killer type shit.

   • 1998, Danny Hoch, “Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop”, in American Theatre‎^[1], volume 15, page 44:

     That’s why my new album, Where Is the Joy, is on some new, improved, extra-ill, enlightened, epiphany-type shit, and that’s all I got to say.

   • 2004 April 4, Elizabeth Kolbert, “Dumbassification”, in The New Yorker‎^[2]:

     “I think talk radio from a liberal standpoint means that you can actually touch more souls and be more sensitive to a wider demographic, instead of saying, ‘We’re going to turn America into a bonfire pep rally, and if anybody doesn’t like that we’re going to bomb them, too,’” Chuck D said. “I mean, what the fuck is that about? That’s some 1944, ‘Sands of Iwo Jima,’ John Wayne, I’m-mad-at-everybody-else-because-some-black-guy-took-my-girlfriend-type shit.”

   • 2022 October 13, Mach-Hommy, Andre Gee, “Don’t Call Mach-Hommy ‘Reclusive’”, in Rolling Stone‎^[3]:

     That’s like the apex. That’s when it’s like, “Damn.” All the leaves actually done fell and gone type shit. That’s the deep freeze.