1. containers used for holding glue, typically heated to keep the glue in liquid form
2. situations or places that are difficult to escape from or get out of
Usage: informal

Examples

• The carpenter kept several gluepots on his workbench for different types of adhesive.
• Old-fashioned gluepots required constant heating to maintain the right consistency.
• The artist’s studio had gluepots filled with various binding agents.
• That traffic jam was a real gluepot – nobody could move for an hour.
• The bureaucratic process became a gluepot that delayed the project for months.
• She felt stuck in the gluepot of her boring job.
• The meeting turned into a gluepot of endless discussions with no resolution.