bottle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily…

   A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

   • Beer is often sold in bottles.
   • He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he’d never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
2. 2

   The contents of such a container.

   • I only drank a bottle of beer.
3. 3

   A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

   • The baby wants a bottle.
   • With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.
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   1. 4

      (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.

      • You don’t have the bottle to do that!
      • He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.
      • He told me I didn’t have the bottle to take them, so I told him I did and he handed them to me one by one and I swallowed them.
   2. 5

      A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

      • Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.
   3. 6

      Intoxicating liquor

      Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

      • to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
      • to hit the bottle
      • See that black boy over there runnin' scared / His ol' man's in a bottle / He done quit his 9 to 5 to drink full time / So now he's livin' in the bottle.
   4. 7

      To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

      • This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
      • The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
   5. 8

      To feed (an infant) baby formula.

      • Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
   6. 9

      To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

      • The rider bottled the big jump.
   7. 10

      To throw away a leading position.

      • Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
   8. 11

      To strike (someone) with a bottle.

      • He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
   9. 12

      To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

      • Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.
   10. 13

       Of pages printed several on a sheet

       Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

   11. 14

       A dwelling

       A dwelling; habitation.

   12. 15

       A building

       A building; house.

   13. 16

       A bundle, especially of hay

       A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

       • I was no ſooner in the middle of the pond, but my horſe vaniſht away, and I ſat vpon a bottle of hey, neuer ſo neare drowning in my life: […]
       • […]Me-thinkes I haue a great deſire to a bottle of hay: good hay, ſweete hay hath no fellow.
       • Don Pedro. Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument. / Benedick. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.

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• synonymfeeding bottlefor feeding babies
• synonymnursing bottlefor feeding babies
• antonymcowardiceantonym(s) of “courage”
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