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shan

adjectivecommon in dialogue

unfair, harsh

adjective

  1. 1

    unfair, harsh

    Here man! that's pure shan that like

  2. 2

    poor, low-quality

Etymology

Origin obscure. Perhaps from shand (“worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps of Romani origin.

Forms

comparative
more shan
superlative
most shan
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).