Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
SHTF en · X
Meanings
(abbreviation, alt-of, euphemistic, initialism, slang) Initialism of (when the) shit hits the fan: used among survivalists to refer to an apocalyptic event.
Some people, however, combine TEOTWAWKI with the immediacy of SHTF—“shit hits the fan,” the ideas of which were initially a response to the civil rights activities in the 1960s. 2019, Thomas Milan Konda, Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 323: