marine recruit

dead marine

slang An empty bottle from an alcoholic beverage. (Potentially considered objectionable.) The yard was littered with dead marines the morning after the wild party. He looked up just in time to see a dead marine being swung at his face.
See also: dead, marine
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

marine (recruit)

and marine officer
n. an empty beer or liquor bottle. (see also dead soldier, dead marine. These expressions are probably meant as derogatory to either marines or officer.) Every now and then the gentle muttering of the customers was accented by the breaking of a marine as it hit the floor. There’s a marine officer laying in the fireplace.
See also: marine, recruit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • marine officer
  • officer
  • recruit
  • dead marine
  • dead soldier
  • the bottle
  • bottle
  • crack a bottle open
  • (Can I) buy you a drink?
  • buy you a drink?
References in periodicals archive
A Marine recruit who was treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) around midnight Friday by a drill instructor died Sunday, according to base officials. 
<BThe dilapidated memorial to Royal Marine recruit Wayne Richards, right, found on Woodbury Common, near Exeter
He is the farthest thing from a model Marine recruit. He failed miserably at physical training, drill, and basic combat skills training.
It was hosted jointly by the Palmetto Chapter, Fort Jackson; Low Country Chapter, Parris Island Marine Recruit Depot; and the Midlands Chapter, Shaw Air Force Base.
But on the Court she's marched like a Marine recruit.
Daniel Van Hoven, son of James and Jill Doon of Holden, has graduated from basic military training from the Marine Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C.
By means of short, staccato verses, Laynes book traces a Marine recruit (who bears the name of the legendary American war hero) through basic training and combat, then becomes allegorically fanciful as "Audie is captured by the ViE[logical not]t CE[sup.3]ng and holds telephone conversations from HEa NE[sup.3]i with the president of the US, yet still hums "The Theme from Marlboro Country".
Following successful completion of Royal Marine Recruit Training and the Commando Course he joined 45 Commando Royal Marines based in Arbroath, where he served as a Rifleman and then Section Second in Command.
"Never tell the platoon sergeant you have nothing to do."--Unknown Marine recruit
Last year doctors were issued with urgent advice about the toxin after it emerged that a super-fit young Marine recruit may have died from it in Devon.
Last year doctors were issued with urgent advice about the PVL toxin after it emerged that a super-fit young Marine recruit may have died from it in Devon.
Doctors have been issued with urgent advice about an "extremely rare" MRSA-linked toxin, after it emerged that a young Marine recruit had died.
All case definitions required radiographic confirmation of pneumonia in a marine recruit hospitalized with acute respiratory illness (ARI) during the outbreak period.
This year the annual one week MOWW JROTC Cadet Leadership training Program, as usual, was conducted at the Marine Recruit Depot in San Diego California.
Paid a salary that would shame a Nike subcontractor and harried like a Marine recruit at Parris Island, that City News Bureau kid is getting the kind of journalism education unavailable almost anywhere else.