Meaning of passion pit | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   slang
2. Any place where sexual activity commonly occurs.
   slang

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Examples

“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.”

“They won't have to brag about how far they went, and the mechanical, "plumbing" aspect of sex in the back seat at the passion pit may soon be a thing of the past.”

“He sat on the back porch on the weekends and watched glumly as a never ending progression of young boys he had never seen before popped out to mutter a quick hello before taking his buxom daughter off to the local passion pit.”

“That was the summer the Bengies Drive-In movie opened. Instantly it became the most notorious passion pit we'd ever heard of.”

“She wanted to see what the passion pit was all about, but I took her to supper and to South Pacific in Memphis rather than to Dragstrip Girl at our drive-in. Anyway, rumor had it that she'd already been to the passion pit.”

“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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