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bottle-smasher

bottle-smasher is the alternative form of bottle smasher.

Meaning of bottle smasher

Noun

bottle smasher (plural bottle smashers)

  1. (colloquial) Someone who causes public disturbances or violent brawls while intoxicated.
    • We pulled a little switch this year, and held the stag in First Term in order not to crowd all the functions into one term. This worked quite well, as it seemed there were more bottle-smashers there is year than ever before.1959, R. M. Duncan — R. Solohub, “Engineering Social Review”, in Slide rule - Vol 25

Forms of bottle-smasher

pluralbottle-smashers

Questions about bottle-smasher

What is bottle-smasher the alternative form of?
Bottle-smasher is the alternative form of bottle smasher.

Words near bottle-smasher in the dictionary

  1. bottle-opener
  2. bottle-openers
  3. bottle-os
  4. bottle-shock
  5. bottle-sickness
  6. bottle-smasher
  7. bottle-sucker
  8. bottle-suckers
  9. bottle-tight
  10. bottle-tom
  11. bottle-toms

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