1. Metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
   "She stirred the soup simmering in the large pot"
    
2. A container in which plants are cultivated
   "She arranged a variety of herbs in small pots on her windowsill";
   - flowerpot
    
3. The quantity contained in a pot
   "She cooked a pot of soup";
   - potful
    
4. [slang] A street name for marijuana
   "Teens were caught smoking pot behind the school";
   - grass [slang], green goddess [slang], dope [slang], weed [slang], gage [slang], sess [slang], sens [slang], smoke [slang], skunk [slang], locoweed [N. Amer, slang], Mary Jane [slang], bud [N. Amer, slang]
    
5. (poker) the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
   "The pot grew to over $1000 before the final hand";
   - jackpot, kitty
    
6. Criticism aimed at an easy target and made without careful consideration
   "The reviewer's pot shots at the movie were unfair";
   - potshot
    
7. A shot taken at an easy or casual target (as by a pothunter)
   "The critic took a pot at the movie's weak plot";
   - potshot
    
8. Trap for catching lobsters
   "The fisherman checked his lobster pots every morning";
   - lobster pot
    
9. An amount of money contributed by a group of people for communal use or shared expenses
   "Everyone put $20 into the pot for the office party";
   - kitty
    
10. [informal] A protruding or large belly
    "His pot suggested a fondness for beer";
    - belly, paunch, potbelly, bay window [informal], corporation [informal], tummy [informal]
     
11. (often followed by ‘of’) a large number, amount or extent
    "a pot of letters";
    - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle [archaic], mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile [informal], plenty, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack [informal], tidy sum, wad, bunch [informal], scad [N. Amer, informal]
     
12. [informal] A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
    "The old house still had its original pot in the bathroom";
    - toilet, can [N. Amer, informal], commode [N. Amer], potty [informal], stool [archaic], throne [informal], loo [Brit, informal]

1. Plant in a pot
   "He potted the palm"

Derived forms: pots, potted, potting

Type of: adipose tissue, bet, cannabis, container, containerful, cooking utensil, cookware, criticism, dagga [S.Africa], embed, engraft, fat, fatty tissue, ganja, imbed, implant, kef, kif, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, marihuana, marijuana, plant, plumbing fixture, shooting, shot, stake, stakes, trap, unfavorable judgment [US], unfavourable judgment [Brit, Cdn], vessel, wager

Part of: bathroom, body, bog [Brit, informal], can [N. Amer, informal], closet [archaic], jacks [Ireland, informal], john [informal], lav [informal], lavatory, loo [Brit, informal], toilet, torso, trunk, W.C. [Brit], water closet [Brit, archaic]

Encyclopedia: Pot, kettle, black