- a portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck and mouth and made of glass or plastic.
- the contents of such a container; as much as such a container contains: a bottle of wine.
- bottled cow's milk, milk formulas, or substitute mixtures given to infants instead of mother's milk: raised on the bottle.
- intoxicating beverages; liquor: He became addicted to the bottle.
- to put into or seal in a bottle: to bottle grape juice.
- to preserve (fruit or vegetables) by heating to a sufficient temperature and then sealing in a jar.
- bottle up,
- to repress, control, or restrain: He kept all of his anger bottled up inside him.
- to enclose or entrap: Traffic was bottled up in the tunnel.
- to drink alcohol to excess often or habitually.
- a vessel, often of glass and typically cylindrical with a narrow neck that can be closed with a cap or cork, for containing liquids
- (as modifier)
- the amount such a vessel will hold
- a container equipped with a teat that holds a baby's milk or other liquid; nursing bottle
- the contents of such a container
- short for magnetic bottle
- nerve; courage (esp in the phrase lose one's bottle)
- money collected by street entertainers or buskers
- well-informed and enthusiastic about something
- drinking of alcohol, esp to excess
- to put or place (wine, beer, jam, etc) in a bottle or bottles
- to store (gas) in a portable container under pressure
- to injure by thrusting a broken bottle into (a person)
- (of a busker) to collect money from the bystanders
- a bundle, esp of hay
