Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snake pit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables: snake pit
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pit filled with snakes.

noun

Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people.

Example Sentences

"Her friends try to persuade her, even fool her, into taking her medication; when she refuses, they try to commit her. She leaves for Ireland, where she has scheduled a speaking tour. There, she is arrested and incarcerated in a real snake-pit: the Our Lady of Clare rest home. And as she tries to figure out how to get out she realizes […]"
"He says he wants to bring “free speech” to the platform, but it’s a mystery what exactly that means, and how he would do so while preventing the service from devolving into a snake pit of hate and harassment even more venomous than it already is."

Inflected Forms

snake pits (plural) snakepit (alternative)

Synonyms

bedlam booby hatch crazy house cuckoo's nest funny farm funny house loony bin madhouse nut house nuthouse sanatorium

Questions

What does snake pit mean?: A pit filled with snakes.

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