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Noun snake pit has 2 senses
- hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno - any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";
--1 is a kind of region, part
- Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pit - pejorative terms for an insane asylum
--2 is a kind of mental hospital, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, institution, mental home, insane asylum, asylum
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