English Explanatory Dictionary

snake pit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pit filled with snakes.
  2. Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people.

Word forms

snake pit snake pits snakepit
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary