"snake pit" meaning in English

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      "glosses": [
        "A pit filled with snakes."
      ],
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
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        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zmijarnik",
          "sense": "pit with snakes",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "змиярник"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pit with snakes",
          "word": "käärmeenpesä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pit with snakes",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Schlangengrube"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "pit with snakes",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "ninho de cobra"
        },
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          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "pit with snakes",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "ormgrop"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "83 17",
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "pit with snakes",
          "word": "butas-ahas"
        }
      ]
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          "ref": "2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He says he wants to bring “free speech” to the platform, but it’s a mystery what exactly that means, and how he would do so while preventing the service from devolving into a snake pit of hate and harassment even more venomous than it already is.",
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        "Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people."
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "institution",
          "word": "käärmeenpesä"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "institution",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Schlangengrube"
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "gadjušnik",
          "sense": "institution",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "гадюшник"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 99",
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          "sense": "institution",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "ormgrop"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "snake pit"
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      "form": "snake pits",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "A pit filled with snakes."
      ],
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        [
          "pit",
          "pit"
        ],
        [
          "snake",
          "snake"
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          "ref": "2022 April 28, Farhad Manjoo, “Is Elon Musk Really That Bad?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "He says he wants to bring “free speech” to the platform, but it’s a mystery what exactly that means, and how he would do so while preventing the service from devolving into a snake pit of hate and harassment even more venomous than it already is.",
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        "(figurative) Any institution (such as a school, prison, hospital, etc.) run in an inept or inhumane way, or full of hostile or treacherous people."
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    {
      "word": "snakepit"
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  "translations": [
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zmijarnik",
      "sense": "pit with snakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "змиярник"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pit with snakes",
      "word": "käärmeenpesä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pit with snakes",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlangengrube"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pit with snakes",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ninho de cobra"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pit with snakes",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "ormgrop"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "pit with snakes",
      "word": "butas-ahas"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "institution",
      "word": "käärmeenpesä"
    },
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      "sense": "institution",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "Schlangengrube"
    },
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      "roman": "gadjušnik",
      "sense": "institution",
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      "word": "гадюшник"
    },
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      "word": "ormgrop"
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  "word": "snake pit"
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