n. an empty liquor or beer bottle. (See also dead soldier.) : Throw your corpses in the trash can, you jerk!
n. a cigarette butt. : The wino picked up the corpse and put it in a little box of them he carried with him.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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corpse
1542, variant spelling of corps (q.v.). The -p- was originally silent, as in French, and with some speakers still is. The terminal -e was rare before 19c. Corpse-candle is attested from 1694.