Usually means: Workplaces for extracting salt underground.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. salt mines: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. salt mines: Collins English Dictionary
  3. salt mines: Vocabulary.com
  4. salt-mines: Wordnik
  5. salt mines: Wiktionary
  6. salt mines: Dictionary.com
  7. Salt mines: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. salt mines: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. salt mines: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See salt_mine as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (salt mine)

noun:  Any mine used for the extraction of salt.
noun:  (by extension) Any laborious work situation, especially in a confined space.
noun:  (Internet slang, derogatory) An abundance of indignation felt by one person or a group of people due to over-sensitivity, humourlessness, disappointment, or defeat; a gold mine (sense 3) of salt (noun sense 11).
▸ Also see salt_mine


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