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bottlelike

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bot⋅tle

1  [bot-l] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
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–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.
—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; ME botel < AF; OF bo(u)teille < ML butticula, equiv. to LL butti(s) butt 4 + -cula -cule 1

Related forms:
bot⋅tle⋅like, adjective
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Slang Dictionary
bottle

  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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Word Origin & History

bottle 
1346, originally of leather, from O.Fr. boteille, from L.L. butticula dim. of L. buttis "a cask." The verb is first recorded 1641. Bottleneck in the fig. sense of "something obstructing even flow" (of traffic, production, etc.) is from 1896.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: bot·tle
Pronunciation: 'bät-&l
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a rigid or semirigid containertypically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle —see WASH BOTTLE
2 : liquid food usually consisting of milk and supplements that is fed from a bottle (as to an infant) in place of mother's milk
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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