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sexpot en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈsɛks.pɑt/ (US)
• /ˈsɛks.pɒt/ (UK)

Etymology

From sex + pot.

Meanings

1. (informal) A sexy person.
   • The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”. 2023 May 2, Samuel Fishwick, “The ‘secret romance’ that got everybody talking at the Met Gala”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 13 May 2023:
   • Rather than asking her to play a shallow sexpot, Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock ask Monroe to play women with strong opinions and complex psyches. 2019, Amanda Konkle, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:
   • After appearing in commercials and soaps as a child, Applegate broke out as a teenage sexpot on the long-running Fox sitcom “Married With Children,” then won an Emmy for her work on “Friends.” 2022 November 1, Alexis Soloski, “Christina Applegate Pours One Out for ‘Dead to Me’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022:

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