pitroom

English

Etymology

pit +‎ room

Noun

pitroom (plural pitrooms)

1. (Antarctica, slang) A bedroom.
   • 2011, Prism International (volume 50, page 19)

     […] my pitroom, and go to bed. I spend the next day with Liam, the marine biologist. Liam studies giant sea sponges, some of them two meters tall; a man could crawl within them.

   • 2023, Sara Wheeler, Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road:

     Nobody told me where I might find my pitroom, or indeed if I had been allocated one. Was I to sleep outside? I was alone among my countrymen at the end of the world.