Definition of "the pits" []

• Something miserable or unpleasant. (noun)

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• "This flat-out, gears-grinding, bumper-car ride into the pits of hell is one major takedown of a read."
• "The heap of discarded things grows: the chicken skin and bones, the pits of olives, potato peels, eggshells, everything left over."
• "A sizable fraction of the pits were destroyed, but ten did emerge—abraded and scarified, yet intact—from one end or the other of a turkey."