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