the whirling pits

the whirling pits
n
British
a feeling of giddiness and/or nausea, tinged with hallucination, brought on, for instance, by the combination of alcohol and a drug such as hashish. The expres-sion describes a condition characterised by lying on one's back, unable to move, while one's stomach heaves and the room whirls about one's head. The heli-copters is a synonym.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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