pot on
To move a potted plant to a larger, more suitable flowerpot.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
pot out
To remove (a potted plant) from its pot and plant it in a garden.
pot up
To put (a plant) into a pot
pot-walloper
One who cleans pots; a scullion.
potaholic
A marijuana addict.
potato
To hit very hard; to pummel.
potato digger
The M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun.
potato eater
An Irish person.
potato masher
A type of stick hand grenade resembling such a utensil.
potato queen
A nonwhite (usually East Asian) man who is mostly attracted to Caucasian men.
potato trap
A person's mouth.
potench
Potential (latent).
pothead
A person who smokes cannabis frequently, or to excess.
potrack
To make such a shrill, high-pitched noise.
potted plant
A shill taking part in an auction.
potterfic
Fan fiction based on the Harry Potter series.
potterhead
One who loves the Harry Potter series of books, the Potterverse, and/or the Wizarding World Rowling-created franchise, especially to a fanatical degree.
potterlock
A genre of crossover fanworks blending characters, settings, and plot elements from the Harry Potter series and the television show Sherlock.
potterverse
The setting of the Harry Potter series.
pouch
A protuberant belly; a paunch.
pouncy
Punchy, aggressive.
pound cake
A term of attraction or desire.
pound out
To perform (a song or piece of music) very loudly.
pound town
A place or setting for vigorous, often rough sexual activity.
poundable
Sexually desirable.
pour down
To rain heavily.
pour forth
To pour or emit in large quantity or large numbers.
pour in
To flow or flood into something or somewhere.
pour into
To continuously pay money or supplies or provide work to an organization, project, movement or effort.
pour out
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pour, out.
pour over
Eggcorn of pore over.
pov
Poor; impoverished; cheap.
poverty is a mindset
Synonym of poverty is a state of mind.
poverty is a state of mind
Someone is only as poor as they perceive themselves to be.
Poverty Row
The small and mostly short-lived B-movie studios in Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s, many of them near what is now Gower Street.
pow
Clipping of powder (“powder snow”).
powder hound
A skier who favours powdery snow.
powder one's nose
To snort cocaine or other types of drugs through one's nose.
powderhound
A skiing enthusiast.
powdering tub
the pocky Hospital at Kingsland near London.
power ahead
To become stronger; to gather momentum; to increase in energy; to become more successful.
power brick
A power supply for an electronic device which is similar in size, shape, and weight of a brick, which plugs into the device using a cord, and to the main supply by another cord.
power down
To switch off (something electrical).
power level
A symbolic and often arbitrary unit of measurement representing strength and fighting ability.
power off
To turn off, to cut the power to.
power on
To turn on (an electrical device).
power scaling
The practice of assessing the physical power and abilities of a fictional character through a comparison with another character.
power tool
A very obnoxious person.
power top
An especially aggressive or energetic active partner in sex.
power up
To turn the electrical power on to a device as a precondition to making it operational.
powerball
Synonym of speedball (“mixture of drugs”).
powerlevel
To play so as to advance levels in a game as quickly as possible.
PowerPoint ranger
A person with a desk job who tends to produce computerized slide presentations rather than doing anything more useful.
powerscale
To assess (a fictional character) by power scaling.
powerslash
Slash fan fiction focusing on a romantic and/or sexual relationship between characters of unequal social status or rank.
pox doctor's clerk
A person who is showily dressed.
poz friendly
Willing to have sex with someone who is HIV positive by someone who is HIV negative.
poz up
Synonym of poz (“to infect (someone) with a sexually transmitted infection; especially HIV”).
pozzed
Culturally or ethnically diverse, or left-leaning and adhering to excessive political correctness.
PPP
Initialism of piss-poor protoplasm.