hellhole

noun

hell·​hole ˈhel-ˌhōl How to pronounce hellhole (audio)
Synonyms of hellholenext
: a place of extreme misery or squalor

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The factory is a hellhole. his first apartment was a hellhole in an unsafe neighborhood
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This all started back in April when Black trans manager and bartender Olivia Rhodes claimed that the place was a hellhole for gays to work. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 The communists want to turn America into a Third World country, into a hellhole of crime and filth. — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026 Newsom defended California against Republican attacks — and common mindsets throughout much of America — that the Golden State is a socialist hellhole of high taxes, unaffordable living and rampant crime. — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026 Max believes that the exit out of this hellhole will be in the memory of the moment Henry trapped your mind. — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hellhole

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of hellhole was in 1850

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“Hellhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellhole. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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