Honeypot

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Honeypot is literally:

• A pottery vessel, jar or other container used to store honey

But as a metaphor, a honeypot or a honeytrap may refer to:

• Honey trapping
• Espionage recruitment involving sexual seduction in
  • reality
  • fiction
• A type of sting operation such as a
  • Bait car
  • Honeypot (computing), a trap to help fight unauthorized computer access
• Honeypot (tourism), a honey pot site is a particularly popular visitor attraction which attracts tourists, and sometimes locals, in large numbers.
• Honeypot, a common name for the flowering plant Protea cynaroides
• Honeypot ant, one of several species of ants
• The Honey Pot, a 1967 film starring Rex Harrison and Susan Hayward
• "Honeypot", a season 1 episode of 2009 animated TV series Archer
• "Honeypot", a song by Beat Happening on their Beat Happening album
• "Honeypot", a song by Rebelution on their Peace of Mind album

See also

• Honey (disambiguation)
• Honey bucket