A fork of Rural Dictionary
An overwhelming amount of work, studying, research or homework. At the beginning of the task, it seems almost impossible to complete. Some how you finish just before the deadline. Sleep deprivation and a need for caffeine are common side effects.
Brianna has a shit ton of studying tonight.
A Shit-ton is equivalent to 24 metric assloads, or 1/10th of a fuck-ton. Used to measure un-quantifiable amounts of something. Although it can be used in the measurement of very large people it actually is not a unit of weight.
Bad Usage: That guy must weigh a shit-ton. Good Usage: I just payed a shit-ton more money switching to Geico AND it took 20 minutes. -or- A shit-ton of thought went into this definition.
Approximately 3.5x the necessary amount of something.
We're gonna have a shit-ton of fun!
Shit-ton, despite sounding like a measure of mass, is actually a measure of volume. In other words - a shit-ton is the volume occupied by a ton (mass) of shit.
(On a tour of a brewery) "On our left, we have our primary fermenters. Each fermenter has the capacity of 2.3 shit-tons, which is equivalent to the amount of beer drunk every second in the United States"