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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɜɹkəl ˌpɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: cir‧cle pit
Noun
circle pit (plural circle pits)
- (dance, music) A dance at a concert where participants mosh in a circular path, leaving the centre clear.
- 2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 April 2019:
- Call Me in the Morning also fuses old and new, referencing the Rolling Stones' Paint It Black while swimming in Auto-Tune. The circle pit then swirls anew for Open the Till, which features a yellable chorus and more gnomic Skinnerisms. "You make ends meet," he [Mike Skinner] notes, "then they move the ends."
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Translations
kind of mosh pit in which the participants follow a circular path
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