THE PITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the pits mean? 

• THE PITS (noun)
  The noun THE PITS has 1 sense:

1. any place of pain and turmoil

  Familiarity information: THE PITS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE PITS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any place of pain and turmoil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

hell; hell on earth; hellhole; inferno; snake pit; the pits

Context example:

when you're alone Christmas is the pits

Hypernyms ("the pits" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

 Context examples 

The pits likely serve as mini-domiciles for microbes, conferring some degree of protection against inhospitable conditions.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

The horse may be at the bottom of one of the pits or old mines upon the moor.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A substance found in the pits of many fruits such as apricots and papayas, and in other foods.

(Amygdalin, NCI Dictionary)

There was a story that one of the pits dug for the dead in the time of the Great Plague was hereabout; and a blighting influence seemed to have proceeded from it over the whole place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)