Usually means: Depressions, holes, or hollow places.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. pits, the pits: Merriam-Webster
  2. pits, pits: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pits, the pits: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pits, the pits: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pit's, Pits, pit's, pits: Wordnik
  6. pits, the pits: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. PITs, pits, the pits: Wiktionary
  8. pits, the pits: Dictionary.com
  9. pits: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. the pits: Rhymezone
  11. PITS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  12. pits, the pits: FreeDictionary.org
  13. the pits: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pits, the pits: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pits: Legal dictionary
  3. pits: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pits, the pits: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pits: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pits: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  3. pits: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PITS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pits: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pits: Natural History Terms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pits: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pits: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Pits: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. The Pits: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. Pits, the pits: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pits: Card Games
  2. Internet Karting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Pits: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. PITS: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (PIT)

noun:  A hole in the ground.
noun:  (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
noun:  (music) The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
noun:  A mine.
noun:  (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
noun:  (trading) A trading pit.
noun:  (colloquial) Armpit.
noun:  (aviation) A luggage hold.
noun:  (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
noun:  The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
noun:  The grave, underworld or Hell.
noun:  An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
noun:  Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
noun:  (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
noun:  (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.
noun:  (slang) A mosh pit.
noun:  (American football) The center of the line.
noun:  (medicine, slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
noun:  (botany) In tracheary elements, a section of the cell wall where the secondary wall is missing, and the primary wall is present. Pits generally occur in pairs and link two cells.
noun:  (Antarctica and UK, military, slang) A bed.
noun:  (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
verb:  (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
verb:  (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
verb:  (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
noun:  (Northern US) A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
noun:  A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
noun:  (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
noun:  (informal) A pit bull terrier.
noun:  Abbreviation of Pittsburgh. [A city, the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.]
noun:  Initialism of personal income tax.
noun:  (computing) Initialism of programmable interval timer.
noun:  Initialism of precision immobilization technique.: a method for ending car chases by causing a controlled collision, forcing the pursued car into a spin.
noun:  Initialism of pursuit intervention technique.: the same method for ending car chases.
noun:  Initialism of parallel immobilization technique.: the same method for ending car chases.
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