pot

Plural: pots

Noun

metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
the quantity contained in a pot
a container in which plants are cultivated
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
slang for a paunch
a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
street names for marijuana
A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A vessel used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot; (figuratively, slang) a toilet; the lavatory.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A crucible: a melting pot.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A perforated cask for draining sugar.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
An earthen or pewter cup or mug used for drinking liquor.
Various similar open-topped vessels, particularly
A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
Ruin or deterioration.
Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
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.
An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
A plaster cast.
Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
Marijuana.
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.
Clipping of potion.

Verb

Verb Forms: potted, potting, pots

To place something into a pot or container.
plant in a pot
- "He potted the palm"
To put (something) into a pot.
To preserve by bottling or canning.
To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
To be capable of being potted.
To shoot with a firearm.
To take a pot shot, or haphazard shot, with a firearm.
To secure; gain; win; bag.
To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
To tipple; to drink.
To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
To score (a drop goal).
To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.

Examples

a pension pot
a savings pot
After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.
He decided to POT his plant, a simple task compared to scoring 100 points with a ’Q’.
No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
potted meat
The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.
to pot a plant

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

Synonyms

batch, bay window, can, commode, corporation, crapper, deal, dope, flock, flowerpot, gage, good deal, grass, great deal, green goddess, hatful, heap, jackpot, kitty, locoweed, lot, Mary Jane, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, potbelly, potentiometer, potful, potty, quite a little, raft, sens, sess, sight, skunk, slew, smoke, spate, stack, stool, throne, tidy sum, toilet, tummy, wad, weed, Cousin John, Jerry, MJ, Mary Joanna, Texas tea, bedpan, benj, bhang, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, chamber, chamber pot, cheeba, chemical toilet, choof, cooking pot, cookpot, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doobage, endo, ganj, ganja, gazunder, green, greenery, guzunder, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, honey bucket, honeypot, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, latrine, lobster pot, lobster trap, marihoochie, marijuana, method, mezz, middy, mingo, muggle, mull, necessary stool, pan, pee pot, piss pot, pisspot, po, pool, pot, potty-chair, puff, reefer, schooner, sensimilla, sensimillia, shit, shitbucket, shitcan, shitpot, slop bucket, stool of easement, sweetleaf, tea, thunder mug, trees, twig, urinal, wacky tobaccy, yarndie, zaza, zombie

Scrabble Score: 5

pot: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pot: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pot: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

pot: valid Words With Friends Word