pits

pits
pits "the worst," by 1953, U.S. slang, said to be a shortened form of armpits.

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  • pits — pits, the pits he pits . The worst possible situation, person, or thing; something extremely bad, boring, or depressing; always used with the; as, cleaning the house is the pits. [Slang] [PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • pits — 1. n. the armpits. (Usually crude.) □ Man, you have a problem in your pits. □ Who’s got the smelly pits in here? 2. the pits n. anything really bad. (Always with the in this sense.) □ Life is the pits …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • PITS — • Programming in the Small • Payload Integration Test Set NASA • Pits in Polycarbonat eingeprägte/eingeschmolzene Strukturen auf DVD Medien …   Acronyms

  • Pits — pis, pits nm puits Normandie …   Glossaire des noms topographiques en France

  • PITS — [1] Programming in the Small [2] Payload Integration Test Set ( > NASA Acronym List ) [3] Pits in Polycarbonat eingeprägte/eingeschmolzene Strukturen auf DVD Medien …   Acronyms von A bis Z

  • pits — See the pits …   English idioms

  • pits — [1] Area at a race track for fuelling, tire changing, making mechanical repairs, etc. [2] Cavities extending from the surface into the metal as a result of pitting corrosion. Also see shallow pits …   Dictionary of automotive terms

  • Pits (game) — Pits is a five player card game, a cross between whist and rummy, with the objective of playing all your cards first.It is played with a 54 card pack (4 suits and 2 jokers). Threes are low, Aces high, Twos even higher and Jokers highest.Once all… …   Wikipedia

  • Pits — Pit (engl. für „Grube“) ist Hundekampfarena (siehe: Kampfhund) eine (datentragende) Vertiefung auf einer Compact Disc ein Fluss in Kalifornien, siehe Pit River. die Fachbezeichnung für mikroskopisch kleine Vertiefungen/Schädigungen an Werksteinen …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • pits — ➡ coal mining * * * …   Universalium

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