bottle

A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.

Beer is often sold in bottles.

He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he’d never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

The contents of such a container.

I only drank a bottle of beer.

A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.

The baby wants a bottle.

With Marvin getting older ... and walking now ... I thought it was time to start weaning him off of his bottle.

(originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.

You don’t have the bottle to do that!

He was going to ask her out, but he lost his bottle when he saw her.

A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.

Did you know he’s a bottle brunette? His natural hair color is strawberry blonde.

To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.

This plant bottles vast quantities of spring water every day.

The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.

To feed (an infant) baby formula.

Because of complications she can't breast feed her baby and so she bottles him.

To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.

The rider bottled the big jump.

To throw away a leading position.

Arsenal bottled the Premier League.

To strike (someone) with a bottle.

He was bottled at a nightclub and had to have facial surgery.

A dwelling; habitation.

A building; house.