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pot

UK /pɒt/US /pɑt/

noun 28
verb 16
forms 3
phrases 8

noun28

a round container, usually made of metal, with a flat bottom and high sides, for cooking food
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The nominal household cooking vessel, metaphorically standing for the supply of food for a meal, or for the home.
- Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot. — 1999
Various similar open-topped vessels.
A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffee pot or teapot.
A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
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A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
- Shit or get off the pot.
A crucible: a melting pot.
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
(Australia) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
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(slang) Marijuana.
- The way we figure it, ma'am, if everybody walked around naked, smoked pot and listened to rock'n'roll, there wouldn't be any more wars! — 1968
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The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
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(slang) Ruin or deterioration.
- After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.
A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
(slang) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
(slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
(slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
(historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
A plaster cast.
A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
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(historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French... — 1786
(UK, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
Clipping of potion.
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(no longer used) An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
- "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions." — 1930

verb16

To put (something) into a pot.
To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
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To be capable of being potted.
- The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
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(slang) To shoot with a firearm.
- When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. — 1897
(slang, old-fashioned) To take a potshot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
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(UK, informal) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- If you leave out this “catching" stage altogether and start proper toilet training at, say, eighteen months you will only have to pot your baby about 2000 times for the same effect. — 1978
(informal) To secure; gain; win; bag.
To preserve by bottling or canning.
(UK) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
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To score (a drop goal).
- With five minutes to go, Trevathan potted his second goal, and finally it was the fullback Taylor who scored. — 1967
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To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer. — 1986
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(slang) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- While the announcer is talking, the select switch on the mixing board for the microphone input is selected, and the microphone is “potted up.” — 1999
To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
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To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- Too much temper likewise prevents the melasses from separating from the sugar when it is potted or put into the hogshead — 1793
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(dialect, no longer used) To tipple; to drink.
- It is less labour to plough than to pot it. — 1623

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potted · potting · pots

Phrases with pot

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