bottle

bottle

1. informal Alcoholic beverages. I have to drive home, so I'm staying off the bottle tonight.
2. informal Excessive or habitual consumption of alcoholic beverages. I'm afraid that Tom is on the bottle again.
3. slang The buttocks. The term comes from rhyming slang in which "bottle" is short for "bottle and glass," which rhymes with "ass" or "arse." Primarily heard in UK. It's icy out there, so take it slow, or you'll end up on your bottle.

the bottle

euphemism Alcohol in general, especially in the context of abuse or addiction. I think Jerry might be back on the bottle. His work has gotten really sloppy and he's been very agitated lately. I need to start laying off the bottle and focusing on my studies.
See also: bottle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bottle

drinking alcohol. His friends thought he was a bit too fond of the bottle. She tried to stay away from the bottle, but she never could manage it for long.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

bottle

1. n. a drunkard. The bar was empty save an old bottle propped against the side of a booth.
2. and the bottle n. liquor. (Always with the in this sense.) Her only true love is the bottle.
3. in. to drink liquor to excess. Let’s go out and bottle into oblivion.

the bottle

verb
See bottle
See also: bottle
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • be the chief cook and bottle washer
  • bottle
  • bottle (something) away
  • bottle and glass
  • bottle baby
  • bottle it
  • bottle of Dog
  • bottle out
  • bottle up
  • bottle up feelings, to
  • bottleache
  • brown bottle flu
  • capture lightning in a bottle
  • catch lightning in a bottle
  • chief cook and bottle washer
  • chief cook and bottle-washer
  • cork high and bottle deep
  • crack a bottle
  • crack a bottle open
  • crack open a bottle
  • crack open a/the bottle
  • don't put new wine in(to) old bottles
  • have (a lot) of bottle
  • have a lot of bottle
  • have, show, etc. bottle
  • head cook and bottle washer
  • hit the booze
  • hit the bottle
  • hit the sauce
  • lay off the bottle
  • let the genie out of the bottle
  • lightning in a bottle
  • lose (one's) bottle
  • new wine in old bottles
  • on the bottle
  • put the genie back in the bottle
  • show (a lot) of bottle
  • spin the bottle
  • the bottle
  • the genie is out of the bottle
  • You cannot put new wine in old bottles
  • you can't put new wine in(to) an old bottle
  • you can't put new wine in(to) old bottles
  • your blood's worth bottling
References in classic literature
Saying this he again turned round, dropped his hands, took the bottle and lifted it to his lips, threw back his head, and raised his free hand to balance himself.
He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who caught it neatly.
Let's have a bottle of rum!" shouted Pierre, banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to climb out of the window.
War and Peace
For instance, there's the Powder of Life, and my Liquid of Petrifaction, which is contained in that bottle on the shelf yonder--over the window."
All the shelves were lined with blue glass bottles, neatly labeled by the Magician to show what they contained.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
My head grovelled in the ashes of an extinguished fire, while my feet reposed upon the wreck of a small table, overthrown, and amid the fragments of a miscellaneous dessert, intermingled with a newspaper, some broken glass and shattered bottles, and an empty jug of the Schiedam Kirschenwasser.
Angel of the Odd
Durdles; but I have suspicions that my bottle was filled with something stiffer than either of us supposed.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
I cautiously snatched away the brandy bottle as I spoke, and was in the drawing-room with it in an instant.
The words "bottle!" "audacity!" and "nerves!" reached my ear disjointedly.
A Rogues Life
There were times when I beat and kicked him madly, times when I cajoled and persuaded him, and once I tried to bribe him with the last bottle of burgundy, for there was a rain-water pump from which I could get water.
I heard it go into the pantry, and the biscuit-tins rattled and a bottle smashed, and then came a heavy bump against the cellar door.
War Of The Worlds
Then Dummling said: 'Father, do let me go and cut wood.' The father answered: 'Your brothers have hurt themselves with it, leave it alone, you do not understand anything about it.' But Dummling begged so long that at last he said: 'Just go then, you will get wiser by hurting yourself.' His mother gave him a cake made with water and baked in the cinders, and with it a bottle of sour beer.
When he came to the forest the little old grey man met him likewise, and greeting him, said: 'Give me a piece of your cake and a drink out of your bottle; I am so hungry and thirsty.' Dummling answered: 'I have only cinder-cake and sour beer; if that pleases you, we will sit down and eat.' So they sat down, and when Dummling pulled out his cinder-cake, it was a fine sweet cake, and the sour beer had become good wine.
Fairy Tales
For these occasions he kept a few bottles of beer under the bed, and one of these and a pipe would help him to bear the burden of life.
And I must leave all this"--he waved his arm round the dirty garret, with its unmade bed, the clothes lying on the floor, a row of empty beer bottles against the wall, piles of unbound, ragged books in every corner--"for some provincial university where I shall try and get a chair of philology.
Of Human Bondage