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The pits

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something miserable or unpleasant. plural, plural-only, slang

    "This whole experience has been the pits."

  2. 2
    any place of pain and turmoil wordnet

Etymology

Theorized to be a shortened form of armpits, i.e., somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. First use appears c. 1953. See cite below.

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