soda siphon

British

noun

Also called (esp US): siphon bottle. a sealed bottle containing and dispensing soda water. The water is forced up a tube reaching to the bottom of the bottle by the pressure of gas above the water

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Their startled players found themselves being revived by jets of water dispatched from a soda siphon by double World Cup winning manager and wannabe barkeep Vittorio Pozzo.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2021

Soon afterwards he became a steward in a City club for businessmen, but left after an uncharacteristic dispute with a barmaid which ended with her squirting a soda siphon in his face.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2011

As Hungary celebrated noisily afterwards, a soda siphon suddenly flew into their dressing room and the lights went out.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2010

They made for him, but he fought them off with powerful squirts from a pale blue soda siphon.

From Time Magazine Archive

While he was in the kitchen, filling a soda siphon and getting ice out of the refrigerator, a police whistle began shrilling in the living room.

From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023