Definition of "hellhole" []

• A place of extreme wretchedness or squalor. (noun)
• Obsolete The pit of hell. (noun)

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• "He drew controversy with his comments last summer about Lafave and prison: To place an attractive young woman in that kind of hellhole is like placing a piece of raw meat in with the lions."
• "Forcing poor minority people to live your commie welfare-state hellhole is racist."
• "Anything that helps transform Red State America into a rusty industrial hellhole is fine by me. fostert says:"