Definition of the Day 8/21/14 — Snake Pit

SNAKE PIT, n. 1) A den of vipers; 2) A common euphemism for “academia.”

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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the best modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary

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