gluepot, n.¹ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

gluepot n.¹

1. a parson [he ‘joins together’ married couples].

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1812–82		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.

2. a part of the road so muddy that vehicles stick in it.

1892		Daily News in Morris Austral Eng. (1898) 162/2: The Bishop of Manchester [...] assures us that no one can possibly understand the difficulties and the troubles of a Colonial [...] clergyman until he has [...] struggled through what they used to call ‘glue-pots’.
1903		J. Furphy Such is Life 45: Stuck in a gluepot, jist in front o’ the (adj.) [i.e. bloody] hut.
1918		C.J. Dennis ‘An Old Master’ in Backblock Ballads 19: We were in a glue-pot, certain — red and stiff and most tenacious.
1924		G.H. Lawson Dict. of Aus. Words And Terms 🌐 GLUE-POT – A bad road.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 46/1: Glue pot, a poor road for vehicular travel.

3. (Irish/S.Afr./US) a particularly pleasant public house [one wishes to be or finds oneself ‘stuck’ there].

1920		A. Baer Two & Three 23 Feb. [synd. col.] No citizen [...] could grab a snifter in the viullage glue pot.
1944		P. Kendall Dict. Service Sl. n.p.: glue pot . . . a café, inn or spot that sells beer.
1975		J. Ryan Remembering How We Stood 28: This pub was beginning a long history as a poetic glue-pot.
2003		Brummagem Dict. 🌐 glue pot n. a slang term for a local pub.

4. (US Und.) a post office.

1925		Collier’s 8 Aug. 30/1: A post office is a ‘glue-pot’.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).

5. (US) an old horse, suggested by use of horse carcasses in glue manufacture.

1924		[ref. to c.1900] F. Isman Weber and Fields 252: I told you to get down on Ajax, and that galloping glue pot isn’t home yet.
1966		D. Westlake Busy Body 16: Engel’s father’s imperfection happened to be throwing his money away on a lot of gluepots.