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bottle

UK /ˈbɒtəl/US /ˈbɑtəl/

noun 9
verb 7
forms 3
phrases 9

noun9

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a container that holds drinks and has a thin neck with a small opening at the top
- Beer is often sold in bottles.
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A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- The baby wants a bottle.
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The contents of such a container.
- I only drank a bottle of beer.
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(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- to drown one’s troubles in the bottle
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(UK, informal) (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.
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[before a noun] 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.
(dialect, UK) A building; house.
(dialect, no longer used) A dwelling; habitation.
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(no longer used) 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: […] — 1589

verb7

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To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.
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(UK, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- The rider bottled the big jump.
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(UK, slang) To throw away a leading position.
- Arsenal bottled the Premier League.
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(UK, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.
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(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.
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(UK) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.
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bottled · bottling · bottles

Phrases with bottle

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