pant-load

n. 1 a. nonsense; rubbish; (a crock of) shit. 1 b. a despicable person; a fool. 2. a large amount. Subjects: English, Derogatory, Slang

Etymological Note: From a literal meaning of pant-load as “turds; the product of a bowel movement,” especially when copious.

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Citations: 1980 Paul McGrath Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) (Oct. 3) “Unleashed Palmer is better than ever” p. P17: It boiled down to musical competition; Palmer had a pantload of good songs, Mas had one or two catchy choruses. 1991 Bob Arthur Usenet: rec.sport.pro-wrestling (June 19) “Re: Tugboat’s Turny”: Vince seems to be having a harder and harder time giving Hogan bigger than life opponents. After so many fat-guy feuds, a Hogan match can’t build anxiety in the marks unless the opponent is a mega pantload. 1993 Jon Lender Hartford Courant (Connecticut) (May 23) “Radio rabble-rouser stirs strong passions” p. G1: He’s been abusing them with names like “fat pantload.” 1994 Washington Times (District of Columbia) (Jan. 25) “Da Bowl” p. B2: You can recognize notoriety by the three-name phenomenon. John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Bobbitt, Mary Tyler Moore (just kidding). Shoot, it’s already happened to Harding’s pant-load of a bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt. 1997 [Colin Fox] Usenet: comp.os.linux.x (July 6) “Re: Graphics format convertion command-line utilities?”: RedHat (at least, the 4.1 release that I have) comes with a package called ImageMagic which has a pant-load of converters. 1997 Usenet: alt.sports.football.pro.baltimore (Dec. 23) “Hey Mel Time To Swallow”: If there was ever any doubt that Kiper has no creditbillity just watch how he cosigns all of Art’s lies.What a pant load this guy has become. 1998 [VSenses] Usenet: alt.hacker (Feb. 17) “Newbie hackers have it rougher”: No wonder these “newbies” can be a pant load. The media has spoon fed them frosted covered cheerios when the real world is shredded wheat. 1998 Andrew Hubbartt Usenet: rec.sport.paintball (Apr. 3) “Re: Oh Pawlak is starting a new Internet Team”: If you don’t mind, i would like to read your article… it just might help. or it could be a pant load. 1999 [Philip C. Farnam] Usenet: sci.astro.amateur (June 30) “Re: Art Bell”: Bell’s a pant-load as are his guests and topics. 2004 Steve Baker Pushing Water Uphill with a Rake (Oct.) p. 123: On line four I have holding for you, that ridiculous pant load for brains, lacking in all writing skills or sense of financial reason, from the Denver Business News, weighing in with an I.Q. of 37. 2006 Arune Singh Arune.com (Sept. 1) “Toronto: “The Second Coming” Day Two”: Now that all makes it sound like Arthur never had any game and that he wasn’t a cool guy before (or “pantload,” as Kurt Ingram would call a non-cool person).

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