bottle

About 15.47 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun The contents of such a container.

   I only drank a bottle of beer.

3. noun A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

   The baby wants a bottle.

4. noun (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.

   You don’t have the bottle to do that!

5. 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.

6. noun Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

   to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

7. verb To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

   This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

8. verb To feed (an infant) baby formula.

   Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.

Similar words

cup jar vial bottleneck teapot pot pint canteen liquor booze

Often followed by

of and in with to is or was on

Word family

bottled bottleful bottlefuls bottler bottlers bottles bottling