Meaning of honeypot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pot of honey.
2. Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
   US, dated, figuratively, slang
3. A romantic pet name; "honey".
   US, dated, figuratively, slang
4. A vulva or vagina.
   figuratively, slang
5. A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.
   figuratively
6. A woman who attracts sexual attention from men.
   figuratively
7. A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
   figuratively
8. A draw: a place which attracts visitors.
   British, figuratively
9. A chamberpot.
   euphemistic, obsolete
10. A slop bucket.
    euphemistic, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“"[S]he had the boss eating from her honeypot." Baxter rolled his eyes at the crude term for pussy, but Rodney did have a point.”

“And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.”

“Perhaps in order to create his own, more controlled environment for debaucherie, he set up a house of prostitution with Gestapo funds, justifying it as a "honeypot" with which to ensnare unsuspecting foreign diplomats.”

“The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.”

“Wherever the biggest bunch of men were in the room, you could bet Lisa'd be in the middle of them. What a honeypot.”

“'You're turning into a honeypot,' he would say to her: it was a criticism of sins uncommitted, it was jeering as if she were getting above herself, it was a warning, no doubt of that, and there was something else which she could barely fathom, it was hurt at the approaching betrayal, a staving off of loss.”

“Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.”

“Superb Roman remains, Georgian architecture and countless museums justify Bath's position as a tourist honeypot.”

“ES's original intention was to run beyond Berlin to the tourist honeypots of Dresden and Prague, but a lack of suitable train paths means that won't be possible until March 2024.”

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