noun. A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house.

noun. A filthy, disgusting, or morally corrupt place.

noun. A sunk chamber, cistern, or well in a drain or privy, to receive the sediment or filth.

noun. Figuratively, any foul or fetid receptacle.

noun. A cistern in the course, or the termination, of a drain, to collect sedimentary or superfluous matter; a privy vault; any receptacle of filth.

noun. An underground pit where sewage is held.

noun. A filthy place.

noun. a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

"The people of city X or county Y can be relied upon not to turn their community into a cesspool without the state and federal governments telling them what a cesspool is and is not."

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