pesthole
- n a breeding ground for epidemic disease
- Pennsylvania, rich, but with many pesthole slums, cut its lung-tuberculosis death rate from 37 per 100,000 in 1945 to 16 in 1952.
- Under the dry surface he came on what looked like a pesthole.
- But for its 245,000 inhabitants, jammed into some 230 narrow city blocks, Harlem is a virtual pesthole.