Definitions for snake pit
snake pit

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1. hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, infernonoun

   any place of pain and turmoil

   "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";

2. Bedlam, booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, sanatorium, snake pitnoun

   pejorative terms for an insane asylum

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1. snake pit

   Sente Technologies (also known as Bally Sente, Inc.) was an arcade game company. Founded as Videa in 1982 by several ex-Atari employees, the company was bought by Nolan Bushnell and made a division of his Pizza Time Theatre company in 1983. In 1984 the division was acquired by Bally Midway who continued to operate it until closing it down in 1988. The name Sente, like Atari, is another reference to Bushnell's favorite game, Go and means "having the initiative."

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1. snake pit

   A snake pit refers to a place or situation characterized by intense, chaotic, highly competitive, malicious, or unpleasant conditions. It often symbolizes a harmful environment involving plotting, backstabbing, or cut-throat competition. The term is often used metaphorically.

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1. Snake pit

   Snake pits are places of horror, torture and even death in European legends and fairy tales. The Viking warlord Ragnar Lodbrok is said to have been thrown into a snake pit and died there, after his army had been defeated in battle by King Aelle II of Northumbria. An older legend recorded in Atlakviða and Oddrúnargrátr tells that Attila the Hun murdered Gunnarr, the King of Burgundy, in a snake pit. In a medieval German poem, Dietrich von Bern is thrown into a snake pit by the giant Sigenot - he is protected by a magical jewel that had been given to him earlier by a dwarf. Nothing however supports the assumption that snake pits were ever actually maintained or used for torture or execution. The necessary effort and the risks would have been far too big for something the effect of which could hardly been foreseen or controlled with sufficient precision. In common metaphorical usage, a snake pit can mean any institution or organization led in an inept or inhumane way, or an institution containing many people who may be hostile, untrustworthy, or otherwise treacherous. For example, the film The Snake Pit tells the story of a woman who finds herself in an insane asylum and cannot remember how she got there.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of snake pit in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of snake pit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of snake pit in a Sentence

1. Bill Taylor:

   I was concerned that there was, I think I put it, a snake pit in Kiev and a snake pit here, and I was not sure that I could usefully serve in that context.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=snake pit
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Pit
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=snake pit