sheisty
adj.— «Their travails, the baby-mama drama, the “sheisty” record execs, the violence that comes closer than most of us will ever experience, are all documented in “Westside”.» —“Outsider’s View Of Hip-Hop” by Andrea Comer Hartford Courant (Conn.) Apr. 2, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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