Usually means: Extremely unpleasant, miserable, or dangerous.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word hellhole:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. hellhole: Merriam-Webster
  2. hellhole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hellhole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hellhole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hellhole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hellhole, hellhole: Wordnik
  7. hellhole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hellhole, hellhole: Wiktionary
  9. hellhole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hellhole: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hellhole: Dictionary.com
  12. hellhole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Hellhole (cave), Hellhole (film), Hellhole (novel), Hellhole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. hellhole: Rhymezone
  15. hellhole: FreeDictionary.org
  16. hellhole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. hellhole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hellhole: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hellhole: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. hellhole: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (slang, derogatory, idiomatic) A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.
▸ noun:  Alternative form of hellhole [(slang, derogatory, idiomatic) A place of intense hatred, misery, or turmoil.]

Similar:
Hell hole, hell-hole, hell, Helltown, heck, hellride, hellmouth, h-word, hellhouse, doghouse, more...

Opposite:
paradise, heaven, utopia

Adjectives:
little, real, such, worst, stinking, same, infested, notorious, tropical, filthy, true


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Similar:
Hell hole, hell-hole, hell, Helltown, heck, hellride, hellmouth, h-word, hellhouse, doghouse, more...

Opposite:
paradise, heaven, utopia

Adjectives:
little, real, such, worst, stinking, same, infested, notorious, tropical, filthy, true



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