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bottle-holder

bottle-holder is the alternative form of bottleholder.

Meaning of bottleholder

Noun

bottleholder (plural bottleholders)

  1. (colloquial) A person who attends a boxer during a bout.
    Synonyms:
    bottleman
  2. (broadly, colloquial) One who assists or supports another in a contest; a backer.
    • he has called me the bottle-holder of my right honourable friendOctober 17, 1796, John Philpot Curran, speech on Catholic Emancipation

Forms of bottle-holder

pluralbottle-holders

Questions about bottle-holder

What is bottle-holder the alternative form of?
Bottle-holder is the alternative form of bottleholder.

Words near bottle-holder in the dictionary

  1. bottle-feed
  2. bottle-feeder
  3. bottle-feeders
  4. bottle-feeds
  5. bottle-flipping
  6. bottle-holder
  7. bottle-holders
  8. bottle-horse
  9. bottle-horses
  10. bottle-jack
  11. bottle-jacks

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