"the pits" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Theorized to be a shortened form of armpits, i.e., somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. First use appears c. 1953. See cite below.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "Doing it once is no fun, but doing it over because you lost your work is the pits.",
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        {
          "ref": "1953, Joseph Becker Phillips, Malcolm Muir, Raymond Moley, Rex Smith, Samuel Thurston Williamson (contributors), Newsweek, volume 42, page 54:",
          "text": "A bad exam experience would be ‘I'm wasted’ at Howard,..‘It was the pits’ at Vassar.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:",
          "text": "Ain't that the pits... I'm actually gonna have to wait for another customer in this crazy heat? That's harsh...",
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      "glosses": [
        "Something miserable or unpleasant."
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          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Something miserable or unpleasant."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "the dumps"
        }
      ],
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  "word": "the pits"
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  "etymology_text": "Theorized to be a shortened form of armpits, i.e., somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable. First use appears c. 1953. See cite below.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "Doing it once is no fun, but doing it over because you lost your work is the pits.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1953, Joseph Becker Phillips, Malcolm Muir, Raymond Moley, Rex Smith, Samuel Thurston Williamson (contributors), Newsweek, volume 42, page 54:",
          "text": "A bad exam experience would be ‘I'm wasted’ at Howard,..‘It was the pits’ at Vassar.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:",
          "text": "Ain't that the pits... I'm actually gonna have to wait for another customer in this crazy heat? That's harsh...",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something miserable or unpleasant."
      ],
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          "unpleasant",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Something miserable or unpleasant."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "the dumps"
        }
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