Definition of "bottle" []

• A receptacle having a narrow neck, usually no handles, and a mouth that can be plugged, corked, or capped. (noun)
• The quantity that a bottle holds. (noun)
• A receptacle filled with milk or formula that is fed, as to babies, in place of breast milk. (noun)
• Informal Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle. (noun)
• Informal The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle. (noun)

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• "Look at this prisoner slumbering peacefully beside his _huqqa_ under the suggestive bottle tree (there is something touching in his selecting the shade of a _bottle_ tree: Horace clearly had no _bottle_ tree; or he would never have lain under a strawberry (and cream) tree)."
• "This Klein bottle is only a prototype and so won't be there."
• "Plaster of Paris equals arris; arris equals Aristotle; Aristotle rhymes with bottle; bottle is short for bottle and glass; glass rhymes with arse."