Crossword clues for potus
potus
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wire service acronym for president of the United States (or President of the United States), occasionally used outside wire transmissions by those seeking to establish journalistic credibility, a survival from the Phillips Code, created 1879 by U.S. journalist Walter P. Phillips to speed up transmission by Morse code, but obsolete from c.1940 with the widespread use of teletype machines. Other survivals include SCOTUS for "Supreme Court of the United States."
Usage examples of "potus".
The mass of the people here slaved their days away to feed the Potus, his wives, sons, daughters, and relatives, and those who served him, and the priesthood, the mysterious network of shamanlike mystics who seemed to live an even grander life than the Potus himself.
POTUS offspring being held for desecrating portrait of POTUS as governor that hangs in state capitol building.
POTUS pretends he has a bad connection, impersonates voice of a Mexican woman who has “cut in” on the call, then hangs up.
But for some reason it had never crossed my mind that I'd ever play host to the President of the United States, which is what Potus stands for.