passion-pit

passion pit

dated slang A place, especially a drive-in movie theater, where many young people come together on dates or romantic outings, so called because of the tendency for physical intimacy to occur there. A: "Let's go out this weekend." B: "OK, let's see what's playing at the passion pit." There's this passion pit a little ways up in the mountains where high schoolers and college kids park their cars and hook up.
See also: passion, pit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

passion-pit

n. a drive-in movie theater; any place where young people go to neck, such as an area where teenagers park. (Dated but still heard.) She wanted me to drive down to the passion-pit, but I said I had a headache.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • passion pit
  • love's young dream
  • moonlight
  • be (not) all moonlight and roses
  • cat-and-dog life
  • ship name
  • sugar daddy
  • a sugar daddy
  • (one) could be (someone's) (parent/grandparent)
  • (one) is old enough to be (someone's) (parent/grandparent)
References in periodicals archive
But here her passion-pit take on relations between the sexes, often searing on paper, skirts dangerously close to kitsch melodrama.
Stainless rugby is not possible in a passion-pit; rugby without flaw cannot be played by sides who are stirred to heights of intensity reached by Wales and England yesterday.