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paint pot in American Englishnoun1. Also: paintpot a container, as a jar, pail, or bucket, for holding paint while it is being applied 2. Geology a spring or pit filled with boiling colored mud Compare mud pot Examples of 'paint pot' in a sentencepaint pot The house is done up in immaculate greige, so if colour's your thing, get the paint pot out.It resembles a paint pot, with drips of colour and the 'handle' doubling up as a towel rail (718; astonmatthews.com).Next door there's a guy cleaning paint pots by setting them alight.He denied knowing that three holdalls he looked after in his garage next to paint pots and bric-a-brac contained gems.Mid-afternoon, and he's a familiar figure in the office kitchen, filling his paint pots with water.It is not a decorator's van and a couple of guys with a ladder and a few paint pots. |