# POTUS
## English
### Etymology

Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpəʊ.təs/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈpoʊ.təs/
* Rhymes: -əʊtəs
* Hyphenation: PO‧TUS

### Noun

POTUS (plural POTUSes or POTUSs)
* (US politics) Acronym of President of the United States.
** 2001, Richard Carmona, Christopher M. Grande, Dario Gonzalez, “Trauma Care Support for Mass Events, Counterterrorism, and VIP”, in Eldar Søreide, Christopher M. Grande, editors, Prehospital Trauma Care, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, part D (Transportation and Specific Problems), page 732:The medical history of the principal is extremely important in assessing risk in any given protective detail for a myriad of activities of the protectee [34]. Once again, using the example of the POTUS or former POTUSs (the POTUS has Secret Service protection for life), the range of health status is from extremely healthy and physically active to relatively sedentary with significant medical problems, including endocrine, metabolic, and/or cardiac, with an implantable automatic defibrillator in one protectee.
** 2016 April 13, Liliana Sikorska, “Sir Isumbras Meets Jack Bauer, or on the (Re)Reading of Medieval Saracen Romances”, in Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński, editors, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, volume XII (2015), Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105:Isumbras does not seem to be returning to the place he came from and Jack Bauer keeps leaving his job and returns to it several times – he always tries to lead a “normal” life and is never given such a possibility. Assuming however, that even partial re-integration carries the force of a closure, Bauer is rewarded with friendships among the high and mighty (successive POTUSs of the series feature, Isumbras fares better than Jack, as he receives “more welthe thenne evere he was” (l. 761)$^{48}$.
** 2017 October 28, Gabrielle Bruney, “Some Lucky Accused Criminal Could Have Obama on Their Jury”, in Esquire‎, Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., retrieved 2020-02-23:It makes sense that ex-POTUSes don't tend to make it onto juries.
** 2023, Ryan McGee, “Fifth Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the Circuit Rider”, in Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN:It felt like every Asheville restaurant had a framed photo of Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline Stowe dining in their establishment, taken when the pair resided in a downtown hotel during the 1991 filming of The Last of the Mohicans. If not those two, then there was a pic of another duo, James Garner and Jack Lemmon, who marched through the streets of Asheville in a scene when they (as former POTUSs) accidentally crash a gay pride parade in My Fellow Americans.

#### Derived terms

* GEOTUS

#### See also

* FLOTUS
* SCOTUS
* VPOTUS

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “POTUS”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* ↑ Michael Quinion (1996–2025) “POTUS”, in World Wide Words.
* ↑ POTUS, FLOTUS at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

### Further reading

* President of the United States on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Toups, USPTO, pouts, putos, spout, stoup, tupos, upsot