Shell Shock
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
The stunned depleted feeling after intense technical stress or repeated incidents. In engineering slang, it refers to the emotional and cognitive aftermath of operational violence more than to any literal shell.
In plain English: The stunned exhausted feeling after repeated intense technical stress.
Example: "By the end of the week the on-call rotation was in shell shock, which made the case for slowing further changes much stronger than any slide deck could have."