Usually means: Hidden danger in a plan.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word pitfall:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitfall: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pitfall: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pitfall: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pitfall: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pitfall: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pitfall, pitfall: Wordnik
  7. pitfall: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pitfall: Wiktionary
  9. pitfall: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pitfall: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pitfall: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pitfall, pitfall: Dictionary.com
  13. pitfall: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pitfall: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pitfall (game show), Pitfall, Pitfall, The Pitfall: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pitfall: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pitfall: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pitfall: Rhymezone
  19. pitfall: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pitfall: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pitfall: Free Dictionary
  22. pitfall: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pitfall: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. pitfall: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pitfall (disambiguation), Pitfall (film), The Pitfall, pitfall: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pitfall (disambiguation), Pitfall (film), The Pitfall, pitfall: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pitfall: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pitfalling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
noun:  (literal) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.
noun:  (computing) An antipattern.
noun:  (mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.

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