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noun, verb, -tled, -tling.| 1. | a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic. |
| 2. | the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine. |
| 3. | bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle. |
| 4. | the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle. |
| 5. | to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice. |
| 6. | British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar. |
| 7. | bottle up,
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| 8. | hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually. |
bottle up
Repress, contain, hold back; also, confine or trap. For example, The psychiatrist said Eve had been bottling up her anger for years, or The accident bottled up traffic for miles. This idiom likens other kinds of restraint to liquid being contained in a bottle. [Mid-1800s]
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