honeypot
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - enPR: hŭn'ē-pŏt
Noun
[edit]honeypot (plural honeypots)
- A pot of honey.
- (figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:
- (US slang, dated) A romantic pet name; "honey".
- (slang) A vulva or vagina.
- 2011, Mechele Armstrong, Code Monkey, →ISBN:
- "[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.
- (espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.
- 1989, The Washingtonian, volume 24, page 25:
- And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.
- 1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War, Random House, →ISBN, page 226:
- 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.
- 2004, Richard C.S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 353:
- The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.
- A woman who attracts sexual attention from men.
- 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 90:
- Wherever the biggest bunch of men were in the room, you could bet Lisa'd be in the middle of them. What a honeypot.
- 2012, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing The Lines, →ISBN:
- '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.
- (computer security) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
- 2007 October 12, “Data leak: Cyber sherlocks outwit hackers”, in The Economic Times, retrieved 29 June 2008:
- Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.
- (chiefly British) A draw: a place which attracts visitors.
- 2004 March 13, Bernice Davidson, “England 2004: Bright lights on the water”, in Telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 28 June 2008:
- Superb Roman remains, Georgian architecture and countless museums justify Bath's position as a tourist honeypot.
- 2023 December 13, Ben Jones, “Night train dreams struggle to overcome railway realities”, in RAIL, number 998, page 24:
- 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.
- (obsolete, euphemistic) A chamberpot.
- (obsolete, euphemistic) A slop bucket.
Synonyms
[edit]- (vagina): See Thesaurus:vagina
- (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
- (honey pit): See Thesaurus:outhouse
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]a pot of honey
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a trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems
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Portuguese
[edit]Noun
[edit]honeypot m (plural honeypots)
- (computer security) honeypot (a trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorised use of information systems)
- Synonym: pote de mel
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