Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - honeypot

(honeypots) 1. If you describe something as a honeypot, you mean that it is very desirable or very popular. ...traditional tourist honeypots such as London, Bath, Edinburgh, and York. N-COUNT 2. If something attracts people like bees to a honeypot or like bees round a honeypot, it attracts people in large numbers. This is the show that attracts computer industry people like bees to a honeypot. PHRASE