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1. n. A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids. | |
Beer is often sold in bottles. | |
2. n. The contents of such a container. | |
I only drank a bottle of beer. | |
3. n. A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle. | |
The baby wants a bottle. | |
4. n. (UK, informal) 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. | |
5. n. (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) 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. | |
6. n. (obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle. | |
7. n. (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol. | |
to drown one’s troubles in the bottle | |
to hit the bottle | |
Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car” (song): See, my old man’s got a problem. He live(SIC) with the bottle; that’s the way it is. | |
8. n. (printing) the tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times. | |
9. v. To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig. | |
This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day. | |
10. v. (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula. | |
Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him. | |
11. v. (UK, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. | |
The rider bottled the big jump. | |
12. v. (UK, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle. | |
He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery. | |
13. v. (UK, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval. | |
Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival. | |
14. n. (dialectal) A dwelling; habitation. | |
15. n. (dialectal) A building; house. | |