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bottomless pit

noun

Etymology

From Revelation 9:1–12.

Definitions

  1. A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.

  2. Hell.

  3. An endless resource or supply.

    • Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as "the bottomless pit of erudition."
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A person with an apparently boundless appetite

      A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.

      • 2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.

    2. An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in…

      An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in typically causes the player’s character to instantly lose a life.

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