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city shitter en · NOUN

Etymology

Probably from city slicker.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, vulgar) Synonym of city dweller.
   • In an early draft of a poem Orlovsky titled “Fertilizer Blues,” which emanated from a page-long diatribe about gardening and New York City being full of shit—human and animal—he sets off the lines “Then I could take on where Chaplin left off—oh, for the life of a city shitter, that’s the life for me—.” The last part of this line hearkens back to Chaplin’s 1952 film Limelight 2016, Haven, Lisa Stein, 1960-, Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp in America, 1947-77, page 68:

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Synonyms

city dweller