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pits

US // (pɪts) //

坑,坑洞,洼地,凹坑

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : the pits slang the worst possible person, place, or thing

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Examples

  • Loescher repeatedly emphasized that these sites are by no means limited to the La Brea Tar Pits.

  • Point one: It pits a best-selling management guru against a trendy yogurt company.

  • Here, he pits the craziest GoPro footage against his own, which is noticeably less extreme.

  • They are lake-sized pits used to store the toxic water that is a byproduct of the mining process.

  • The slap stick comedies, with the children falling in mud pits, or getting pushed by goats around weedy, sandy lots, were a hit.

  • The road was execrable; full of holes, pits, and puddles, in which our poor beasts often sank above their knees.

  • Hence it is obvious that great advantage must be derived, especially in rainy districts, from covered manure-pits.

  • She's handsome yet, but her muscles are getting that loose look and her eyes are bottomless pits of ennui.

  • It is in these latter deposits exclusively that the arenaria, or sand pits, are found.

  • They sink pits in the pathways of their game, covering them with light sticks and leaves and sprinkling earth over the whole.