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pits
noun
in a hospital, the medical screening area US- — Maledicta, p. 68, Summer/Winter, 1978: “Common patient directed pejoratives used by medical personnel”
▶ the pits
the very bottom; the depths; the nadir; the worst US, 1953
Perhaps from “armpits”.- — American Speech, p. 194, October 1965: “Notes on campus Vocabulary, 1964”
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 173, 1968
- Well, the first year it wasn’t so bad, but then it went right downhill. The pits. — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 127, 1977
- DeDe smiled bitterly. “I do. Isn’t that the pits?” — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 165, 1978
- I really was in the pits in ‘78. — Ask, p. 47, 5 May 1979
- You guys are the absolute pits of the world, do you know that? — John McEnroe, 1981
- “ Things aren’t going so well at home, Nickie?” asked Lacey solicitously. “The pits,” I replied. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 117, 1993
- B and B is the pits. — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 49, 1999
- I am the pits, the fuckin dregs uv humanity, the lowest ov the fuckin low[.] — Niall Griffiths, Grits, p. 11, 2000
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