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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. any place of pain and turmoil;
- Example: "the hell of battle"
- Example: "the inferno of the engine room"
- Example: "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";
[syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

pits \pits\, the pits \the pits\n.
   The worst possible situation, person, or thing; something
   extremely bad, boring, or depressing; -- always used with
   the; as, cleaning the house is the pits. [Slang]
   [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

the pits
    n 1: any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the
         inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas
         is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole,
         snake pit, the pits, inferno]