hotbednoun
uk/ˈhɒt.bed/us/ˈhɑːt.bed/a hotbed of sth
a place or situation where a lot of a particular activity, especially an unwanted or unpleasant activity, is happening or might happen:
The police department was a hotbed of corruption.
In the 60s the city was a hotbed of crime.
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Unpleasant places
- armpit
- be the armpit of sth idiom
- den
- desert
- dive
- eyesore
- fleabag
- fleapit
- hellhole
- hole
- hovel
- nest
- pigsty
- pit
- sausage machine
- slum
- the Black Hole of Calcutta
- wasteland
- what's the world coming to? idiom
- world
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