Meaning of bottle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
2. A dwelling; habitation.
   UK, dialectal, obsolete
3. A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
   obsolete
4. The contents of such a container.
5. tank (closed container for liquids or gases)
6. A building; house.
   UK, dialectal
7. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
8. (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
   British, informal
9. A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
   attributive
10. Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
    figuratively

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Examples

“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.”

“I only drank a bottle of beer.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.”

“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.”

“See, my old man’s got a problem / He live with the bottle, that’s the way it is”

“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.”

“Can you deny that you've been off and on lately between flunkydom and The Cause, like a donkey between two bottles of hay?”

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