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potboil

potboil verb: to produce inferior creative works in order to make money.

Verb

potboil (third-person singular simple present potboils, present participle potboiling, simple past and past participle potboiled)

  1. To produce inferior creative works in order to make money.

Forms of potboil

third-person singular presentpotboils
present participlepotboiling
past participlepotboiled
pastpotboiled

Origin of potboil

From pot + boil, after pot boiler.

Questions about potboil

What does potboil mean?
Potboil means to produce inferior creative works in order to make money.
What part of speech is potboil?
Potboil is a verb.
What is the past tense of potboil?
The past tense of potboil is potboiled.

Words near potboil in the dictionary

  1. potbellies
  2. potbelly
  3. potbelly pig
  4. potbelly stove
  5. potbelly stoves
  6. potboil
  7. potboiled
  8. potboiler
  9. potboilers
  10. potboiling
  11. potboils

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