Dutch oven

Meanings

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

1. To break wind beneath one's bedcovers or some other enclosed space.

Etymology

From Dutch (“makeshift, substitutional, replacement, ersatz”) + 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.