bottle-suckers

Noun

bottle-sucker (plural bottle-suckers)

1. (slang) A boozer, especially one who drinks from the bottle rather than a glass.
   • He has ascertained that a large number of "bottle-suckers" frequent this locality to consume beer.1924 January 2, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 2, column 5
2. (slang) A baby or infant, or an adult who behaves as one.
   • Some years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter the Staff Corps, and had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers...1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 135