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bot·tle

1   [bot-l] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
noun
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.
verb (used with object)
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.

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Verb phrase
7.
bottle up,
a.
to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
b.
to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
Idiom
8.
hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English botel < Anglo-French; Old French bo(u)teille < Medieval Latin butticula, equivalent to Late Latin butti(s) butt4 + -cula -cule1

Related forms
bot·tle·like, adjective
well-bot·tled, adjective
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Word Origin & History

bottle
mid-14c., originally of leather, from O.Fr. boteille (12c., Mod.Fr. bouteille), from V.L. butticula, dim. of L.L. buttis "a cask," which is perhaps from Gk. The bottle, figurative for "liquor," is from 17c. The verb is first recorded 1640s. Related: Bottled; bottling.
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Slang Dictionary

bottle definition


  1. n.
    a drunkard. : The bar was empty save an old bottle propped against the side of a booth.
  2. n.
    the bottle liquor. (Always with the in this sense.) : Her only true love is the bottle.
  3. in.
    to drink liquor to excess. : Let's go out and bottle into oblivion.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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