metric fuckton

English

Etymology

See metric shitload.

Noun

metric fuckton (plural metric fucktons)

1. (slang, vulgar, often humorous) Synonym of metric shitload.
   • 2019, Jarett Kobek, Only Americans Burn in Hell, Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, page 246:

     The whole world cried out, in unison, and demanded that the United States government not kill a metric fuckton of Iraqis. But the Iraqis still died by the metric fuckton.

   • 2020, Charles Stross, Dead Lies Dreaming: Book 1 of the New Management, A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 154:

     We don't like the guns, we can't go any further without spending a metric fuckton of money that we don't have, so we're out of the game, yes? Are we all agreed?

   • 2020, Lindsay Ellis, Axiom’s End, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 197:

     They don't want a huge lie and a metric fuckton of stupid mistakes to be made public.