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pits

/ ɪٲ /

plural noun

  1. the pits slang.
    the worst possible person, place, or thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of pits1

C20: perhaps shortened from armpits
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Norris' stop was a full second faster than Verstappen's and the Briton was halfway alongside the Red Bull when they exited the pits.

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McLaren's stop was faster by a second, and as they left the pits the McLaren was halfway alongside the Red Bull.

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One of the raps on Social Security is that it supposedly pits the older generation against the younger.

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The Curtis Cup, which pits Great Britain and Ireland's top female amateurs against their American counterparts, was the following week.

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Cleanly sliced into two parts, this spare novel of complicated ambitions — personal, professional and familial — pits three people against their perceived places in the world as well as their rarely acknowledged shadow selves.

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