A rural Pennsylvania term meaning something, someone or some situation that is lame, bogus, or otherwise unpleaseant to deal or cope with.

Intelligence agency term for "psychological operation". A government or corporate-sponsored operation, usually taking the form of a "terrorist attack" or "crazed gunman on a spree", with the intent of panicking the public into demanding more police and laws inhibiting freedom. Psyops are usually carried out by drugging a civilian or group of civilians with aggression-promoting drugs, psyching them up, arming them, and sending them out to commit mayhem. Government-sponsored terrorism. See also blackshirts, conspiracy

Someone or something that is in need of improvement.

hurtin is a form of the word ugly.

Someone, or something that is generally ugly and undesirable

1. An object, person, or situation which is sketchy, questionable.
2. May be used to describe an individuals state or physical appearance.

to be in dire need of something