Usually means: Dangerous, chaotic situation or place.
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  1. snake pit: Merriam-Webster
  2. snake pit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. snake pit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. snake pit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. snake pit: Vocabulary.com
  6. snake-pit: Wordnik
  7. snake pit: Wiktionary
  8. snake pit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. snake pit: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. snake pit: Dictionary.com
  11. Snake pit (disambiguation), Snake pit, The Snake Pit, The snake pit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Snake pit: Rhymezone
  13. snake pit: FreeDictionary.org
  14. snake pit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. snake pit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snake pit: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snake pit: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See snake_pits as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (snake pit)

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

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