pot

1 noun

1 TEA/COFFEE (C) a container with a handle and a small tube for pouring, used to make tea or coffee

2 COOKING (C) a container used for cooking which is round, deep, and usually made of metal: The sink was full of dirty pots and pans.

3 STORING FOOD (C) a glass or clay container used for storing food: a jam pot | a pot of honey

4 FOR A PLANT (C) a container for a plant, usually made of plastic or baked clay

5 BOWL (C) a dish, bowl, plate or other container that is made by shaping clay and then baking it

6 have pots of BrE informal to have a lot of something, especially money: Julie's Dad's got pots of money!

7 go to pot informal if something such as a place or an organization goes to pot, it becomes much worse because no one is interested in looking after it or making it work: This government has let the whole country go to pot.

8 DRUG (U) old-fashioned marijuana

9 STOMACH (singular) informal a large rounded stomach that sticks out; potbelly

10 CARD GAMES the pot all the money that people have risked in a game of cards, especially poker (1)

11 the pot calling the kettle black informal used to say that you should not criticize someone for a fault that you also have

12 take a pot at informal to shoot at something without aiming carefully

—see also: chamber pot, melting pot 2 verb potted, potting (T)

1 to shoot at animals in order to kill them: Giles was out with his gun, potting rabbits.

—see also: pot shot

2 to put a plant in a pot filled with soil

—see also: potted (1)

3 (T) to hit a ball into one of the bags at the edge of the table in games such as billiards, pool 1 (3), and snooker 1 (3)

pot sth on phrasal verb (T) BrE to move a plant into a large pot because it has grown too big for the pot it is in