Dutch oven

Meaning

Noun

• A large metal cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid.
• A portable oven consisting of a metal box, with shelves, placed before an open fire.
• A protective cover for electrical contacts on a railway coupler, particularly but not exclusively used on the London Underground.
• The situation where a person breaks wind under the bedcovers, sometimes pulling them over a bedmate's head as a prank.
• A room or vehicle full of marijuana smoke.
• The very end of a Dutch Masters cigar that has been rerolled with marijuana.

Origin

• Dutch + oven. See Dutch for more information on the now obsolete sense that the term is derived from.
• The cigar sense is said to originate in New Brunswick, New Jersey.