bottle
1a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.
bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.
the bottle, intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.
to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.
British. to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
bottle up,
to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
Idioms about bottle
hit the bottle, Slang. to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
Origin of bottle
1Other words from bottle
- bot·tle·like, adjective
- well-bottled, adjective
Other definitions for bottle (2 of 2)
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How to use bottle in a sentence
For the first year and a half of operation, they bottled only eighty cases per day, manually.
House of the Witch: The Renegade Craft Brewers of Panama | Jeff Campagna | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd in some places, oil companies truck in bottled water weekly.
And bottled wine proved safer than wine still in barrels or tanks.
As soon as he arrived, someone handed him a bottled water, but his hands were so tired that he struggled to open it.
Before he could grab a bottled water, he was whisked away to do a Q&A for an audience of three thousand.
Whatever he felt he usually kept bottled up inside, no matter how it hurt.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairAnd Lady Hartledon bottled up her curiosity and her wrath, and waited with what patience she possessed.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodIn possession of the news of that darling angel's death ever since Friday night, and to have bottled it up within him till Sunday!
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodUp at Fort Shurdan they had a ginmill where th' warryors cud go an' besot thimsilves with bottled beer an' dominoes.
Mr. Dooley Says | Finley DunneHard is her heart as flint or stone,She laughs to see me pale; And merry as a grig is grown,And brisk as bottled ale.
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British Dictionary definitions for bottle (1 of 2)
/ (ˈbɒtəl) /
a vessel, often of glass and typically cylindrical with a narrow neck that can be closed with a cap or cork, for containing liquids
(as modifier): a bottle rack
Also called: bottleful the amount such a vessel will hold
a container equipped with a teat that holds a baby's milk or other liquid; nursing bottle
the contents of such a container: the baby drank his bottle
short for magnetic bottle
British slang nerve; courage (esp in the phrase lose one's bottle)
British slang money collected by street entertainers or buskers
full bottle Australian slang well-informed and enthusiastic about something
the bottle informal drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
to put or place (wine, beer, jam, etc) in a bottle or bottles
to store (gas) in a portable container under pressure
slang to injure by thrusting a broken bottle into (a person)
British slang (of a busker) to collect money from the bystanders
Origin of bottle
1- See also bottle out, bottle up
British Dictionary definitions for bottle (2 of 2)
/ (ˈbɒtəl) /
dialect a bundle, esp of hay
Origin of bottle
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with bottle
In addition to the idiom beginning with bottle
- bottle up
also see:
- crack a bottle
- hit the bottle
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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