shit sheet
n.— «I won’t say who they are (but) they were distributing shit sheets amongst our members which said: “The AWU’s finished. Join us.”» —by Janelle Miles in Gold Coast, Queensland AAP Newsfeed (Australia) Feb. 8, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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