pot hound
pot hound
1. Any dog trained by law enforcement to detect drugs, especially marijuana, by smell. I broke out in a cold sweat when I saw them bring the pot hounds onto the bus. There's no way I'm smuggling dope through the airport—that place is crawling with pot hounds!
2. Any stray, mixed-breed dog; a mutt. A slang term specific to the islands of the West Indies, especially Grenada. Our family befriended a pot hound that kept sniffing around our garbage, eventually adopting the rascally thing as our own. This part of the island is positively crawling with pot hounds.
See also: hound, pot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
pot hound
and pot sniffer n. a dog trained to sniff out cannabis. (Drugs.) The pot hound at the airport is always busy finding marijuana. A cute beagle named sparky greeted me as today’s “pot sniffer” in the baggage claim area.
See also: hound, pot
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- sniffer
- sniffers
- pot sniffer
- sweat (something) out of (one)
- sweat out of
- sweat something out
- sweat like a pig
- greefo
- griefo
- smelt