/stingk"pot'/ , n.
1. a jar containing combustibles or other materials that generate offensive and suffocating vapors, formerly used in warfare.
2. Informal. a stinker; meany.
3. a common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus, of the eastern and southern U.S., that sometimes climbs trees along the water's edge.
[ 1655-65; STINK + POT 1 ]