honeypot

plural honeypots · alternative honey pot

1. A pot of honey.
2. Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
   1. USdatedfigurativelyslangA romantic pet name; "honey".
   2. figurativelyslangA vulva or vagina.

      "[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.

      2011, Mechele Armstrong, Code Monkey, →ISBN

      Synonyms: axe wound, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, box, bun, bush

   3. figurativelyespionageA spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.

      The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.

      2004, Richard C.S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 353

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

      1989, The Washingtonian, volume 24, page 25

      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.

      1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War, Random House, →ISBN, page 226

   4. figurativelyA woman who attracts sexual attention from men.

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

      1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 90

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      '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.

      2012, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing The Lines, →ISBN

   5. figurativelycomputer securityA trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.

      Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.

      2007 October 12, “Data leak: Cyber sherlocks outwit hackers”, in The Economic Times, retrieved 29 Jun 2008

   6. UKfigurativelyA draw: a place which attracts visitors.

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

      2004 March 13, Bernice Davidson, “England 2004: Bright lights on the water”, in Telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 28 Jun 2008

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      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.

      2023 December 13, Ben Jones, “Night train dreams struggle to overcome railway realities”, in RAIL, number 998, page 24

3. euphemisticobsoleteA chamber pot.

   Synonyms: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder

4. euphemisticobsoleteA slop bucket.