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bottle baby
noun
an alcoholic US, 1925- We were on another plane in another sphere compared to the musicians who were bottle babies, always hitting the jug and then coming up brawling after they got loaded. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 94, 1946
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 87, 16 March 1958
- The dregs of society hang out here, and hustlers of both sexes intermingle with short-con men, narcotics pushers, junkies, and plain bottle babies who booze their way through life. — Johnny Shearer, The Male Hustler, p. 55, 1966
- “There’s no use denying I’m a bottle baby.” — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 200, 1971
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