Meanings
noungrease pot (plural grease pots)
plural grease pots · alternative grease-pot
- A pot formerly used to hold greasepaint.
- obsoleteslangA 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
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