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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1866 a place of extreme misery or squalor

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hellholes) If you call a place a hellhole, you mean that it is extremely unpleasant, usually because it is dirty and uncomfortable. ...stuck in this hellhole of a jail. N-COUNT