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bottomless pit

noun

Definition of bottomless pit

: something that holds a very large amount of something
  • My brother's always hungry. His stomach is a bottomless pit.
  • The Internet is a bottomless pit of information.

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bottomless play

  1. : having no bottom

  2. : extremely deep

  3. : impossible to comprehend : unfathomable

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pit play

  1. : a hole, shaft, or cavity in the ground

  2. : mine

  3. : a scooped-out place used for burning something (such as charcoal)

  1. : to place, cast, bury, or store in a pit

  2. : to make pits in

  3. : to set (fighting birds, such as gamecocks) into or as if into a pit to fight

  1. : the stone of a drupaceous fruit

  1. : to remove the pit from (a fruit)

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