Definitions

1. Noun:
   • Police station, guard post: A small police station or military guard post, typically used during the colonial period in Vietnam. It refers to a place where police or soldiers are stationed.
   • Cigarette holder: A small tube, often made of plastic, bone, or ivory, into which a cigarette is inserted for smoking.
   • Brush: (Less common, regional) A brush, such as a toothbrush or clothes brush.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Police station/Guard post):
  • Người cảnh sát đang làm việc tại bót. (The police officer is working at the police station.)
  • Bót canh gác nằm ở đầu cầu. (The guard post is located at the head of the bridge.)
• Noun (Cigarette holder):
  • Ông ấy hút thuốc bằng một cái bót bằng ngà. (He smokes using an ivory cigarette holder.)
• Noun (Brush):
  • Cô ấy dùng bót để đánh răng. (She uses a brush to clean her teeth.)

Advanced Usage

• "bót cảnh sát": police station.
  • Họ đã đưa người đàn ông đến bót cảnh sát. (They took the man to the police station.)
• "bót giặc": enemy post/station (historical/pejorative).
  • Nghĩa quân đã tấn công bót giặc. (The insurgents attacked the enemy post.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đồn bót (noun): military post or station. This is a compound word where "bót" is part of it.
  • Khu vực này có nhiều đồn bót cũ. (This area has many old military posts.)
• Bàn chải (noun): brush (the more standard and common word for "brush").
  • Tôi cần mua một cái bàn chải đánh răng mới. (I need to buy a new toothbrush.)

Synonyms

• Trạm canh (noun): guard post.
• Đồn cảnh sát (noun): police station.
• Ống hút thuốc (noun): cigarette holder (descriptive phrase).

Related Phrases

• Vào bót: to go to/enter the police station (often implying being taken there).
  • Người tài xế bị đưa vào bót. (The driver was taken to the police station.)
• Canh bót: to guard a post.
  • Anh lính đang canh bót. (The soldier is guarding the post.)

Related Idioms

• Chạy như ma đuổi vào bót: To run as if being chased by a ghost into a police station. This idiom describes running very fast in a panic.
  • Nghe tiếng nổ, nó chạy như ma đuổi vào bót. (Hearing the explosion, he ran as if being chased by a ghost into a police station.)

noun

1. như bốt
2. Police station
3. Cigarette-holder