Bottle Back Wine Noun ˈbɒtl ˈbɑːtl Wine/Beer/Milk/Water Put

• a wine/beer/milk/water bottle
• put the top back on the bottle.
• a plastic/glass bottle
• to open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper.

bottle

1. a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids
• a wine/beer/milk/water bottle
• Put the top back on the bottle.
• a plastic/glass bottle
• To open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper.
• He threw his message in a bottle into the North Sea.

Extra Examples

• She filled the bottle with water.
• a crowd of youths throwing bottles and stones
• Several bags of broken glass bottles were collected.
• He threw his empty beer bottle on the ground.
2. the amount contained in a bottle
• He drank a whole bottle of wine.
• He handed me a bottle of beer.

Extra Examples

• We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine.
• We washed the food down with a bottle of cheap red wine.
3. alcoholic drink
• After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
4. a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk)
• It's time for her bottle.
5. courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant
• SYNONYM nerve
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/nerve_2
• It took a lot of bottle to do that.
• I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him.
6. to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before
• When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.