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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