(figuratively) To come to ruin, especially to decline or deteriorate. / (archaic) Go to hell. (an angry dismissal)

A haphazard shot with a firearm, taken with careless aim, often fired at a random target. / A shot taken from a hidden stakeout.

Synonym of radiation sickness

(finance) Collective investment (such as a company or syndicate) where the investors have little or no idea what is being done.

Alternative spelling of posthaste

Alternative form of pisspot: a chamber pot.

(mildly derogatory) A creative work of low quality (book, art, etc), produced merely to earn a living or for profit, as opposed to serious creative expression. As in to put food on the table, to boil a pot of food.

(nautical) A removable spar extending from the mast to the jib clew used to control the position and shape of the sail when broad reaching or running.

A trap used to catch lobsters, resembling a crate with a small opening that a lobster can enter but has trouble exiting. / Synonym of lobster-tailed pot (“kind of helmet”)

(athletics) a jumping event contested in track and field which requires an athlete to carry a fiberglass pole down a runway, plant the pole into a vaulting box and vault over a fiberglass bar, landing on a matted pit