pot

pot

slang Marijuana. I smoked a little pot when I was in college, but I never touched anything harder than that. He got arrested for dealing pot.

the pot

1. slang A toilet. I was on the pot when the doorbell rang, so I couldn't answer it.
2. informal A sum of money collected communally. We each paid $10 into the pot each month, with the aim of having enough to buy a new coffee machine for the office at the end of the year. Let's all put in a $5 wager. Whoever guesses the outcome right wins the pot, deal?
3. In gambling games like poker, the sum of money that players wager during a hand. I thought I would win the pot with my four of a kind, but Tom won it all with a straight flush.
See also: pot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pot

1. n. a toilet. (Usually with the.) Jimmy’s on the pot, Mommy.
2. n. a drinking vessel. (Old but still heard.) How about a pot of beer?
3. in. to drink heavily; to use a pot (sense 2) to excess. Let’s sit here and pot for a while.
4. n. a vessel, hat, basket, etc., used to collect or receive contributions. Please pass the pot.
5. n. a sum of money collected; a pool of money. How large is the pot this month?
6. n. cannabis; marijuana. (Originally drugs, now widely known.) The cops found pot growing next to city hall.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (do something) or get off the pot
  • a chicken in every pot
  • a little pot is soon hot
  • a melting pot
  • a pot of gold
  • a storm in a teapot
  • a tempest in a teapot
  • a watched pot never boils
  • be pot luck
  • boil the pot
  • can talk the legs off an iron pot
  • crackpot
  • don't have a pot to piss in
  • don't have a pot to piss in (or a window to throw it out of)
  • fish or cut bait
  • fit a quart into a pint pot
  • for the pot
  • fusspot
  • get a quart into a pint pot
  • get/pour/put a quart into a pint pot
  • go to pot
  • gone to pot
  • hello pot, meet kettle
  • hi pot, meet kettle
  • if ifs and ands were pots and pans
  • in the melting pot
  • into the pot
  • keep the pot boiling
  • melting pot
  • not have a pot to piss in
  • piss or get off the pot
  • pot
  • pot boiler
  • pot calling the kettle black, the
  • pot hound
  • pot is calling the kettle black
  • pot luck
  • pot of gold
  • pot party
  • pot shot
  • pot sniffer
  • pot to pee/piss in, not have a
  • pot up
  • pot, meet kettle
  • potbelly
  • potboiler
  • POTS
  • pots of money
  • put (one's) pot on
  • put someone's pot on
  • sex pot
  • sexpot
  • stir the pot
  • sweeten (up) the pot
  • sweeten the kitty
  • sweeten the pot
  • take a pot shot
  • take pot luck
  • the pot
  • the pot calling the kettle black
  • the pot is calling the kettle black
  • throw (something) in(to) the pot
  • up pot
  • up-pot
  • watched pot never boils
  • watched pot never boils, a
  • You cannot get a quart into a pint pot
  • you can't get a quart into a pint pot
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HOW THEY LINE UP