Definition of "hell-hole" []

• Alternative form of hellhole. (noun)

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• "There's no dearth of teachers and principals gifted enough to walk through the metal detectors in any vermin-infested, asbestos-ridden hell-hole school in this city and, in a few years, turn such a school around, but this kind of educator tends not to make a suitable Tweed pet."
• "Often the clandestine decision to "collocate" a shiny new school in a hell-hole building is the first step toward closing a neighboring school."
• "But the cloud that darkened my spirit was not brought on by anything these patriots had revealed about the hell-hole known as Cuba."