Josh Mehlman » portmanteau http://mehlman.info Editor and writer professionally; observer and disdainer of trends in my spare time Wed, 16 May 2012 05:28:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Neologism of the week: shitkansen http://mehlman.info/2010/03/neologism-of-the-week-shitkansen/ http://mehlman.info/2010/03/neologism-of-the-week-shitkansen/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:44:02 +0000 Josh http://mehlman.info/?p=138 Shitkansen (n)

A slow or low-quality train. Portmanteau of ‘shit’ or ‘shitcan’ + ‘shinkansen’, Japanese high-speed train.

Earliest Googleable usage: December 2008.

Dennis Vranic Japan has Shinkansen, we have SHITkansen

Often used in reference to the Sydney-to-Newcastle train journey (eg, Aaron Hewett and Marcus Westbury).

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