fleshpots

/ ˈflɛʃˌpɒts /

plural noun

1. luxurious or self-indulgent living
2. places, such as striptease clubs, where bodily desires are gratified or titillated

Word History and Origins

Origin of fleshpots¹

C16: from the Biblical use as applied to Egypt (Exodus 16:3)

Example Sentences

That’s not how it works, and DeSantis, conservative alumnus of those liberal fleshpots Yale and Harvard, surely knows as much.

From Washington Post

It has given its life to sprout the oases, power the factories and neon the fleshpots of the Southwest.

From Washington Post

On the Rena, we were no longer his flesh and blood, but a crew of landlubberly scum shanghaied from the taverns and fleshpots of many exotic ports.

From Literature

My palate organizes itself around fleshpots.

From Salon

Whatever the catalyst, his arc thereafter is one of exhilarating human agency, moral vacuity and abject depravity that intersects with the storylines of our time — failed states, war in Iraq and Afghanistan that washed up footloose vets and ex-military contractors in the fleshpots of Manila as bagmen and muscle for Le Roux’s ventures, and the opioid epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times