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pot hound

and pot sniffer

n. a dog trained to sniff out cannabis. (Drugs.) The pot hound at the airport is always busy finding marijuana. A cute beagle named sparky greeted me as today’s “pot sniffer” in the baggage claim area.

See also: hound, pot

pot sniffer

verb

See pot hound

See also: pot, sniffer

whiff-sniffer

and wiff-sniffer

n. a prohibitionist; someone always alert for the smell of alcohol on someone’s breath. (Prohibition.) No wiff-sniffer is going to tell me what to do.

wiff-sniffer

verb

See whiff-sniffer