Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The hollow under the upper part of the arm at the shoulder.
- n. Slang The most miserable or undesirable place in a particular area.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The hollow place or cavity under the shoulder; the axilla.
Wiktionary
- n. The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
- n. Somewhere or something considered foul.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the hollow under the arm where it is joined to the shoulder
Etymologies
- From arm + pit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Also, making fart noises with your armpit is hilarious.”
“While the rest of America prospered after World War II, fast-shrinking Scranton became known as the armpit of Pennsylvania, a designation it has never entirely shaken.”
“My armpit is itching and I can’t scratch it but it’s driving me insane.”
“In the afternoon I went to the doctor, since it seems I have a sebaceous cyst in my left armpit, which is very inflamed.”
“Niagara Falls otherwise known as the armpit of Canada has a lot of anti-Asian sentiment..”
“When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick.”
“No one likes to look over when you have your arm raised and see a yellow stain in your armpit, that is just plain disgusting!”
“The odor of the armpit is the most powerful in the body, sufficiently powerful to act as a muscular stimulant even in the absence of any direct sexual association.”
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
“Just under the armpit was the mark of the bullet -- a small puncture already closed, half hidden under a clot or two of blood.”
“You can also buy things known as armpit shields that help limit how visible the sweating is on the outside of your clothes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘armpit’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
vanish, number one, archangel, commodious, dominie, rubble, glisten, morose, spindle, ventilation, Blessed, christian and 503 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The Pits
armpit, pit, pits, cockpit, pity, pithy, pit bull terrier, pit boss, pit stop, pitcher, fire pit, peach pit and 76 more...
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
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recent
Friends, of, today, are, not, only, interested, molar, Whistles, armpit, stinks, spotted and 26 more...
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Unfortunately Necessary Words
Words we have to use all the time, but that doesn't mean they sound good. In fact, they kind of suck. See also this list.
milk, cheese, neck, teeth, moist, dry, skin, head, feet, mouth, frankly, hair and 97 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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words I have an irrational and burnin...
celesbian, crouch, perez hilton, slop, lotus boob, anal fissure, eat out, crotch, sewage, backwash, vomit, pus and 100 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that are visually, sonically, or by definition unpleasant.
kumquat, squat, poke, vomit, chunk, globule, phlegm, sac, armpit, crotch, fecund, fecal and 26 more...
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That is NOT a Christmas Word!
Words overheard in random conversation during Christmas Eve and Christmas 2007, with my extended family—and usually followed by either the exclamation that ____ is not a Christmas word, or a grea...
catheter, toenails, macroaneurysm, proctologist, celiac, asthma, disease buddies, body fluids, bowel resection, bowel, suck it, vagina and 36 more...
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susitucker7's Words
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file313's Words
cryptofrantic, calliophesia, marsupiarthroscia..., flan, cheesedick, lutheran, chary, onanism, specious, egregious, armpit, atavistic and 5 more...
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bocanegra's Words
anal, fisting, pedophile, dirtysanchez, bunnies, poo, armpit
Tweets
Looking for tweets for armpit.
reesetee Ohio? We always figured it was New Jersey. Sep 10, 2007
trivet What were the rest of them, then? I'm curious... Sep 10, 2007
uselessness My college roommate and I used to associate the 50 states with different parts of the body. Michigan, of course, is a hand. Ohio is the armpit. I won't even mention what Florida is. Sep 10, 2007
reesetee Yeah, it's an armpit of a word, isn't it? ;-) Sep 9, 2007
susitucker7 I have never liked this word. Sep 9, 2007