Meaning of bottle-sucker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A boozer, especially one who drinks from the bottle rather than a glass.
   slang
2. A baby or infant, or an adult who behaves as one.
   slang

Examples

“He has ascertained that a large number⟳ of "bottle-suckers" frequent this locality to consume⟳ beer.”

“Some years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter⟳ the Staff Corps, and had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put⟳ on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.”

“Have⟳ we not created a generation of perpetual "bottle suckers" (babies in respect⟳ to being personally responsible)?”

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