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grease-pot

grease-pot is the alternative spelling of grease pot.

Meaning of grease pot

Noun

grease pot (plural grease pots)

  1. A pot formerly used to hold greasepaint.
  2. (obsolete, slang) A theatre owner.
    • This was crude, but effective, and while Mr McIntyre Rosenbaum was struggling to get his stigmatized breath Rita turned to the chorus and said, "You know, girls, this old grease-pot is running the show on his wife's money."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38

Forms of grease-pot

pluralgrease-pots

Questions about grease-pot

What is grease-pot the alternative spelling of?
Grease-pot is the alternative spelling of grease pot.

Words near grease-pot in the dictionary

  1. grease-monkey
  2. grease-monkeys
  3. grease-paint
  4. grease-painted
  5. grease-paints
  6. grease-pot
  7. grease-pots
  8. greaseable
  9. greaseball
  10. greaseballs
  11. greaseband

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