grease pot

English

Alternative forms

• grease-pot

Noun

grease pot (plural grease pots)

1. A pot formerly used to hold greasepaint.
2. (obsolete, slang) A theatre owner.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38:

     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."