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arm pit

arm pit is the alternative form of armpit.

Meaning of armpit

Noun

armpit (plural armpits)

  1. The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
    • She stood a couple of feet away from me […] exposing an edge of brassière strap at her armpit―exposing the armpit itself, a muscular hollow shadowed with fine stubble and faintly streaked with talcum.2009, Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, Virago Press (2018), page 265
    Synonyms:
    underarm, axilla[anatomy]]>, pit, oxter[dialect]]al>, armhole[dialect]]al>
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) Somewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable.
    • the armpit of America
    Synonyms:
    butthole[vulgar]]>, asshole[vulgar]]>

Forms of arm pit

pluralarm pits

Questions about arm pit

What is arm pit the alternative form of?
Arm pit is the alternative form of armpit.

Words near arm pit in the dictionary

  1. arm in arm
  2. arm in crook
  3. Arm of Finland
  4. arm of flesh
  5. arm out
  6. arm pit
  7. arm pits
  8. arm pump
  9. arm rest
  10. arm rests
  11. Arm River

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arm pit (page history and authors); armpit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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