SHTF

English

Phrase

SHTF

1. Initialism of (when the) shit hits the fan: used among survivalists to refer to an apocalyptic event.
   • 2019, Thomas Milan Konda, Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 323:

     Some people, however, combine TEOTWAWKI with the immediacy of SHTF—“shit hits the fan,” the ideas of which were initially a response to the civil rights activities in the 1960s.

Derived terms

• SHTFer

See also

• TEOTWAWKI

Anagrams

• HFTs