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bottle
noun- courage, nerve, spirits UK
A figurative sense of the rhyming slang BOTTLE AND GLASSARSE- What’s the matter, Frank? Your bottle fallen out? — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 50, 1958
- It’s the worst that can be said about you, that you’d lost your bottle[.] — Tony Park, The Plough Boy, 1965
- The cunt’s bottle had gone, no doubt about it. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 141, 1997
- [B]efore I worked up the bottle to make a move, bingo, they were married. — Val McDermid, Keeping on the Right Side of the Law, p. 182, 1999
- a dose of crack cocaine, whether or not it is actually in a small bottle US
- In Tunnely, crack came in tinfoil because it was easier to hide and cheaper to package, but out of habit everybody still called it bottles. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 190, 1992
- a small container of amphetamine or methamphetamine in liquid form US
- — National Institute on Drug Abuse, What do they call it again?, 1980
- in electric and telephone line work, any glass insulator US
- — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 2, 1980
- in betting, odds of 2–1 UK
- — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 59, 1991
- a police officer US
- “A poor neighborhood, no one’s got nothing; a class neighborhood, the bottles bust you on sight.” — Malcolm Braly, It’s Cold Out There, p. 71, 1966
▶ on the bottle
engaged as a pickpocket UK, 2003
From rhyming slang BOTTLE OF FIZZTHE WHIZON THE WHIZthe bottle, big house, or box
in twelve-step recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous, used as a description of the three options for an addict who does not recover from their addiction – a return to drinking, prison and death US- — Christopher Cavanaugh, AA to Z, p. 59, 1998
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