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A hole with ambition, equally happy to swallow you or stage a peach.
means A hole or hollow in the ground or a surface — or, in fruit, the hard stone at the center.
from From Old English 'pytt,' a hole or hollow, borrowed early from Latin 'puteus,' a well or pit. The fruit-stone sense is a separate, later arrival — likely from Dutch 'pit,' meaning kernel or core — so English ended up with two 'pits' that look identical but come from different family trees, one a hole and one a heart.
- Cherry hazard
- Fruit pits contain cyanide-releasing compounds when crushed
- La Brea
- Tar pits trapped ice age beasts for millennia
- Racing
- Pit stops can refuel a Formula 1 car in seconds
- Body geography
- The armpit hosts billions of odor-making bacteria
- Snake sense
- Pit vipers detect prey heat through facial organs
cockpit — aircraft control center where pilots operate boeing 747s and other commercial aircraft
pit stop — formula 1 racing tire change averaging 2 seconds at monaco grand prix
the pit — new york stock exchange trading floor in lower manhattan where traders shout orders