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Bottomless pit

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
  2. 2
    Hell.

    "1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon."

  3. 3
    An endless resource or supply. figuratively

    "Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the bottomless pit of erudition.""

  4. 4
    A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources. figuratively

    "2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars."

  5. 5
    An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in typically causes the player’s character to instantly lose a life.

Etymology

From Revelation 9:1–12.

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