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pot
noun- marijuana US, 1938
The most popular slang term for marijuana in the 1950s. No agreement on the etymology, with competing conjectures and little supporting evidence. - But I never blew up a joint in the folks’ apartment the whole time I was on pot–that’s grass, you know, marijuana. I really never did. — David Hulburi, H is For Heroin, p. 47, 1952
- “ Pot, H., morphine, and that’s all,” the girl recited in a toneless voice. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 31, 1952
- Don’t say pot, Dinch. It’s the intellectuals from college and all who come on that way. They want to get their hip-cards punched. Say pod, Dinch. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 26, 1952
- I learned the new hipster vocabulary; “pot” for weed[.] — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 120, 1953
- Benny, the boy who had been collecting admissions, pushed his way through the crowd to us, his eyes wide with excitement. “Hey, Louie!” he said. “The Gremlins are smoking pot in the toilet!” — The New Yorker, p. 127, 21 September 1957
- [A] crazy Isadora Duncan girl with long blue hair on his shoulder smoking pot and talking about Pound and peote. — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 4, 1958
- I just needs some pot to steady my nerves. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 48, 1959
- Marijuana will be legal some day, because the many law students who now smoke pot will some day become Congressmen and legalize it in order to protect themselves. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 129, 1965
- There were many guys up there I used to bully on the streets and at Wiltwyck, guys I had sold tea leaves to as pot. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 16, 1965
- That aint what the Mex’can called it neither–he called it “pot". — Terry Southern, Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes, 1967
- What do you bring to a hippie “tea party”? Your own “pot"! — Paul Laikin, 101 Hippie Jokes, 1968
- Once or twice a few had fallen in with pot or tea as it was called then and I picked up for the first time one morning and got so stoned I was unable to move. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, pp. 28–9, 1980
- FREDDY: She agreed to that, and said we’d keep the same arrangement as before, the percent and free pot for me, as long as I helped her out that weekend. — Reservoir Dogs, 1992
- But although the police found no pot (I bet that’s what Spotty calls it), they decided that possession of Rizlas [branded cigarette papers] is sufficient grounds to demand a more intimate search. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 121, 1999
- In every practical sense, government has said it’s OK to smoke pot for Christ’s sake[.] — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 17, 2002
- heroin US
- [Charlie Parker] always had a crowd around him and he gave different jobs to each one. “You go and get my horn. You get me some pot. You do this. You do that.” And they would jump. — Kenny Dorham, recalling the late 1940s, quoted in Waiting For The Man, Harry Shapiro, 1999
- in Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania, a 10 fluid ounceglass of beer AUSTRALIA, 1915
- We walked out of the station and across the road and had a long, cool pot at the nearest pub. — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 117, 1941
- A pair of twelve-ounce pots tasted all right after the hard half-shift, but insufficient. — Gavin Casey, It’s Harder for Girls, p. 167, 1941
- The sergeant liked a pot himself and swore by Danny’s beer. — Bill Wannan, Folklore of the Australian Pub, p. 52, 1972
- “We got ponies, glasses, middies, an pots, see,” the first man said. “Now a pony’s four ounces–” The second man said, “Two to four.” “All right, two to four. But who the bloody hell drinks two’s? You keep quiet while I clue him up. A glass is five ounces, a middy is seven ounces, an’ a pot’s ten.” — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 15, 1972
- I had already learnt Melbourne glass sizes and nomenclature, so different from Adelaide. One asks for a four ounce, a small beer, or a pot. A request for a small beer produces seven ounces, and for a pot ten. — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 39, 1972
- “I’m a stranger in Brisbane. What size beers do you serve, and what do you call them?” She said, “Five ounce, eight ounce, and ten ounce. We call them small beers, beers, and pots.” — John O’Grady, It’s Your Shout, Mate!, p. 66, 1972
- ...10 ounces in Vic. and 20 ounces in NSW... — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 73, 1977
- In one hand, the man had a pot of beer, in the other a notebook, a pencil and a thick wad of banknotes. — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 75, 1982
- Crawley winked at him and handed him the pot. — Peter Corris, Pokerface, p. 38, 1985
- a tooth UK, 1992
Polari; usually in the plural. - — the cast of ‘Aspects of Love’, Prince of Wales Theatre, Palare (Boy Dancer Talk) for Beginners, 1989–92
- [D]istract attention from the cod [bad] eke [face] and chronic pots. — James Gardiner, Who’s a Pretty Boy Then?, p. 123, 1997
- in poker, all of the chips or money bet on a single hand US
- — Oswald Jacoby, Oswald Jacoby on Poker, p. 138, 1947
- the jack in a game of bowls UK In Midlands’ use. The southern equivalent is “kitty”.
- — Mr Maurice Butcher, 1979
- in electric line work, a transformer US
An abbreviation of “potential transformer”. - — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 14, 1980
- a carburettor US, 1941
- — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948: ‘Racing jargon’
- He had twin pots and a Columbia clutch / An’ speed that no other car could touch / An’ to you folks who don’t dig the jive / That’s two carburetors and an overdrive. — George Wilson (performed by Bob Williams), Hot Rod Race, 1960
- a hospital patient with many trivial complaints US
- — Maledicta, p. 56, Summer 1980: ‘Not sticks and stones, but names: more medical pejoratives’
- a combat helmet US
- I still saw no M-16s, no steel pots, nothing to suggest a real combat zone. — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 3, 1972
▶ not have a pot to piss in; not have a pot to pee inCANADA, 1961 - After all, following two difficult divorces, he [Phil Tufnell] hasn’t, as he told me, “got a pot to piss in"--and in these uncertain times, a man has “to nick a few quid” while he can. — New Statesman, 30 June 2003
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