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stink⋅pot

  [stingk-pot]
–noun
1. Also called stinkball. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
2. Informal. a stinker; meany.
3. a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.
Origin:
1655–65; stink + pot 1
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stink·ball   (stĭngk'bôl')   
n.  See stinkpot.
stink·pot   (stĭngk'pŏt')   
n.  

  1. Slang A person who is despised.

  2. A small musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus) of the eastern and southern United States, usually found on the bottom of ponds and small streams.

  3. Slang A motorboat.

  4. An earthenware jar containing combustibles emitting a suffocating smoke, formerly used in naval warfare. Also called stinkball.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
stinkpot

  1. n.
    a baby with a dirty diaper. (Also a term of address.) : Come here, you little stinkpot. I'll fix you.
  2. n.
    anything smelly. : Why don't you drive this stinkpot into a service station and get it tuned?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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