Definition of "jeroboam" []

• A wine bottle holding 4/5 of a gallon (3.03 liters). (noun)

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• "The prize is a collection of PG Wodehouse novels, a jeroboam of champagne and the honour of naming a Gloucester Spot pig."
• "McEwan received the hog – and a jeroboam of champagne – as a prize for comic writing in his latest novel, "Solar.""
• "The jeroboam meant one kept on pouring from an open vessel."