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Tea Party shutdown

A 16 day partial government shutdown that occured in October 2013 as part of an effort by the Tea Party to defund the Affordable Care Act
Blocking implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems to be one of the Tea Party's top priorities, this resulted in the Tea Party shutdown.
by scrivener December 8, 2013
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out-of-town shutdown

An issue with one’s digestive tract resulting in the inability to take a dump because you are away from home on vacation
My stomach is killing me. I haven’t taken a shit since we arrived here on vacation. The out-of-town shutdown is lasting longer than normal.
by JT_Hailstorm April 7, 2023
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a shutdown

A government's lack of money to pay public workers and the military. Lack of resources in the Federal, state, and municipal governments.
President Donald Trump is trying to convince congress to allocate financial resources until january 20th ,in order to avoid a shutdown that will leave public workers, retired federal workers , the military and etc,without their wages in february.
by rOBERTHESAINT2@GMAIL.COM January 20, 2018
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Shameful shutdown

Its when you nut and the Post Nut Clarity hits, now you've got to shut down the porn. Finaly you realize what you've watched, shame, shame, shame.
Bro 1 : Shit man, you know when you get the Shameful shutdown

Bro 2 : fuck yeah man, I get it all the time
by specaial ed class June 10, 2020
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Graceful shutdown

When an IT student drinks so much Jaloviina that they pass out cold.
Jaakko had a Graceful shutdown at 11PM
by R3tr0_-_xXx November 5, 2020
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thermal shutdown

The worst thing you can possibly ever get on an HP computer. It also blacks out your computer screen too.
"AW FUCK I GOT ANOTHER THERMAL SHUTDOWN. I HATE THIS LAPTOP!!"
by ROBLOXNoob246 November 28, 2021
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Shapiro-shutdown

in a debate, when your entire argument has been completely blasted to garbage and your left looking like a idiot, by Ben Shapiro, or a similar debater, anybody with a decisive intellect and facts , accompanied by thunderous applause for the "Shapiro/similar person".
did you see that debate at school yesterday? I did, that new guy had all his facts wrong, lost bad, he got the Shapiro-shutdown for sure. the whole place was cheering.
by Alexander_mccarthy_wec June 13, 2022
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