passion pit

Definitions

1. 1

   A drive-in theatre or other unlit or dimly-lit secluded public or private location, with…

   A drive-in theatre or other unlit or dimly-lit secluded public or private location, with particular reference to it as a place of intimacy.

   • The men who worked in it called it the Passion Pit in wry remembrance of other dark rooms they had known and used for more intimate and more enjoyable purposes...
   • We gotta hide up some-place and let them lose us. Tell you what. There's a passion pit just where this comes out onto 95. Drive-in movie.
   • I don't have enough dough to take this chick to a passion pit.
2. 2

   Any place where sexual activity commonly occurs.

   • As relationships mature, the bedroom gets de-coupled from its former role as a passion pit and instead becomes a place to zonk out, watch TV or work.
   • Downstairs, it's The Nightclub - a large room with a funky semi-circular glowing blue bar, big comfy wall banquettes, a secluded circular passion pit in one corner, and a medium-size dance floor.
   • During their teenage years, this secluded area was affectionately referred to as the pit, short for passion pit.

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