Snake Pit

Definition: Snake Pit

1. Any place of pain and turmoil: "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";.

2. Pejorative terms for an insane asylum.

Modern Usage: Snake Pit

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Greg, I'm afraid you've earned four hours in the snake pit as punishment. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)
Movie/TV Titles	The Snake Pit (1948)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Snake Pit

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	The Snake Pit (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snake Pit

Modern Translation: Snake Pit

Language		Translations for "snake pit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		лудница (bedlam, booby hatch, bughouse, madhouse). (various references)

German		schlangengrube. (various references)

Pig Latin		akesnay itpay

Turkish		yılan yuvası, yılan çukuru, tımarhane (bedlam, booby hatch, bughouse, funny farm, institution, loony bin, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental hospital, nuthouse). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Snake Pit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-k-n-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: intakes, panties, patines, pinkest, sapient, spinate.
	-2 letters: instep, intake, kinase, paints, pantie, pastie, patens, patine, patins, pekans, pekins, petsai, pietas, pineta, pintas, ptisan, spinet, takins, tenias, tineas, tisane.
	-3 letters: anise, antes, antis, aspen, entia, etnas, ikats, inapt, inept, inset, kains, kanes, kepis, kinas, kines, kites, knaps, knits, napes, nates, neaps, neats, neist, nipas.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-k-n-p-s-t"
	+2 letters: panickiest, phenakites.
	+3 letters: kinetoplast, outspeaking, printmakers.
	+4 letters: bankruptcies, kinetoplasts, kleptomanias, meatpackings, platemakings.
	+5 letters: kleptomaniacs, premarketings, sportsmanlike, streptokinase.
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