Pot is a slang term for cannabis intended for use as a psychoactive drug or a medication. The word came into existence as a shortening of the Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya (a wine or brandy with steeped cannabis buds). Pot also goes by the names of cannabis, ganja, weed, reefer etc.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pot (noun)1.
a) a usually rounded metal or earthen container used chiefly for domestic purposes (as in cooking or for holding liquids or growing plants) , also any of various technical or industrial vessels or enclosures resembling or likened to a household pot - the pot of a still
b) - potful a pot of coffee
2.
an enclosed framework of wire, wood, or wicker for catching fish or lobsters
3.
a) a large amount (as of money)
b) (1) the total of the bets at stake at one time
(2) one round in a poker game
c) the common fund of a group
4.
- potshot
5.
- potbelly
6.
- ruin gone to pot
7.
British a shot in snooker in which a ball is pocketed
8.
a vessel for urination and defecation as
a) - toilet
b) - potty
transitive verb
1.
a) to place in a pot
b) to pack or preserve (as cooked and chopped meat) in a sealed pot, jar, or can often with aspic
2.
to shoot with a potshot
3.
to make or shape (earthenware) as a potter
4.
intransitive verb
to embed (as electronic components) in a container with an insulating or protective material (as plastic) to take a potshot
- marijuana
1.
potential
2.
potentiometer
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
pot (noun)1.
the total of the bets at stake at one time
SYNONYMS:
jack, jackpot, poolRELATED WORDS:
fund, kitty; bet, stake, wager2.
a considerable amount
SYNONYMS:
abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings ( lashins), loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yardRELATED WORDS:
epidemic, plague, rash; bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood, overflow; army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng; gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillionNEAR ANTONYMS:
atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit; smatter, smattering; dash, drop, morsel, shot; piece, portion, section; absence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want; deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness3.
an enlarged or bulging abdomen
SYNONYMS:
bay window, beer belly, belly, corporation, gut, paunch, potRELATED WORDS:
breadbasket [], stomach, tummy; chubbiness, corpulence, fat, fatness, fleshiness, obesity, overweight, paunchiness, plumpness, portliness, pudginess; chunkiness, heaviness, stoutness
Pot (Wiktionary)
Translingual
Etymology
Clipping of English Potawatomi.
Symbol
pot
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Potawatomi.
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Potawatomi terms
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: pŏt, IPA(key): /pɒt/
- Rhymes: -ɒt
- (US) enPR: pät, IPA(key): /pɑt/
Etymology 1
From Middle English pot, potte, from
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