See Also: stinkpot(medicine)

goop (oh) and stinkpot (medicine)


goop (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: Probably from goo]
AmE informal a thick slightly sticky substance

stinkpot (medicine)


stinkpot


1. An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and Other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, sometimes used in boarding an enemy's vessel.

2. A vessel in which disinfectants are burned.

3. <zoology> The musk turtle, or musk tortoise. See Musk.

Source: Websters Dictionary