Word Finder - bottle

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A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

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Beer is often sold in bottles.

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The contents of such a container.

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I only drank a bottle of beer.

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

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The baby wants a bottle.

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Nerve, courage.

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He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.

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(of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

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Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.

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A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.

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Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.

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to drown one’s troubles in the bottle

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The tendency of pages printed several on a sheet to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.

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

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This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

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To feed (an infant) baby formula.

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

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To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

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The rider bottled the big jump.

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To throw away a leading position.

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Liverpool bottled the Premier League.

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To strike (someone) with a bottle.

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He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.

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To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.

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Meat Loaf was once bottled at Reading Festival.

Another bottle! he shouted.

Dean grabbed a bottle of inexpensive merlot and three glasses.

He gave her the look, the one she knew was meant to remind her of his rules, before he dumped the bottle into the sink.

He held up the bottle and retreated to the bathroom.

He found a bottle of scotch and insisted we toast our success.

He held out a bottle of red water.

She turned to the wine chiller and pulled out the bottle she opened when she returned home from the street fair.

He neglected telling her he'd tossed the bottle he'd found at the scene.

After he destroyed all her drugs, she'd suspected he'd react this way and had hidden another bottle in her bedroom.

He explained how he'd tossed the liquor bottle he found at the site of the wrecked Jeep.

There wasn't any liquor at the accident site when I left and you said a bottle had been found.

She grabbed a second bottle and went to the kitchen for water, dumping out two of each into one hand.

But sometimes it was like lightning in a bottle, and magic happened.

Wasn't that bottle evidence?

Was the bottle in Billy's Jeep vodka?

Four of us, sans Martha, shared a bottle of bourbon with Quinn drinking two for each of ours.

They've got a bottle of wine and a blanket.

It was an empty vodka bottle.

She lifted the bottle as an offer and then noticed it was nearly empty.

We left an empty bottle by his car and tent and drove back in the Ford.

Gabriel's hand snaked out as she passed, and he yanked the bottle neatly from her hand.

He's a genie offering a bottle with a flying carpet tossed in.

He'd opened a fresh bottle of scotch.

There was a glass on an end table next to a half full bottle of gin.

A bottle of wine later, Deidre found herself sobbing on the couch.

He held up a bottle.

He lowered the bottle.

They agreed that there was strong evidence to show that " the contamination took place when the bottle was opened at Malkowal, owing to the abolition by the plague authorities of the technique prescribed by the Bombay laboratory, and to the consequent failure to sterilize the forceps which were used in opening the bottle, and which during the process were dropped on the ground "; and they complained of the inadequacy of the inquiries made by the Indian government, and called for Mr Haffkine's exoneration.

She handed him the wine bottle.

I can't think straight without a bottle on the table and a drink in my hand.

Molly continued to hold Clair, even feeding her a bottle as Martha explained the mechanics of capturing mother's milk while the rest of us pretended not to listen.

I wondered if, with his days off, he might be hitting the bottle early.

Martha wasn't doing well staying alone so she asked a bottle of Beefeater to keep her company.

She noticed the nearly empty gin bottle for the first time.

Without Quinn the stuff is as useless as an empty bottle.

She landed on a topless bottle of oil and spit the fluid out as it sprayed across her face.

I'll bring the bottle.

And why buy two pints when a larger bottle would be cheaper?

I was the first one to the accident scene and I pitched the bottle—the only bottle.

It used to be closed tighter than a kiddie cap on a pill bottle.

He said something cute like one bottle for before and one for after.

But if he planted a bottle in Billy's vehicle after the accident, it's his word against mine the alcohol wasn't there at the time of the accident.

A corner table was overturned, a lamp smashed, and a bottle of vodka broken against the wall.

She rubbed her face, certain the mistake would be clarified soon and she'd be released with an apology the size of a bottle of painkiller she desperately needed.

The general manager was on maternity leave, and she rifled through several drawers before locating a bottle of painkillers.

She'd fallen asleep in Kris's library after half a bottle of whiskey and awoken in her own bed with a throbbing headache and dry mouth.

I'm going to send Kris away and bring you a bottle of whiskey.

Before she could take another drink, Rhyn appeared out of nowhere and snatched the bottle from her.

He took the bottle and tossed it out the window.

He retrieved a small bottle of what looked like perfume and brought it back, holding it out to her.