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cokebottle

cokebottle noun: an unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.

Noun

cokebottle (plural cokebottles)

  1. (slang) An unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.
    • MINCE has a million commands; Control-meta-CokeBottle probably means something.1983, Byte, Volume 8, page 312
    • ...the task at hand with few, if any, religious debates over the virtues of modelessness or the sins of meta-cokebottle-shift.1985, Peter S. Langston, "The Influence of the UNIX Operating System on the Development of Two Video Games", EUUGN, Vol. 5, No. 6, page 34 (reprinted in AUUGN Jul 1985, Vol. 6, No. 2, page 54)...

Forms of cokebottle

pluralcokebottles

Origin of cokebottle

From Coke + bottle, possibly from a nickname for the ! character, thought to resemble an upturned bottle.

Questions about cokebottle

What does cokebottle mean?
Cokebottle means an unusual character, or one that is difficult to type.
What part of speech is cokebottle?
Cokebottle is a noun.
What is the plural of cokebottle?
The plural of cokebottle is cokebottles.

Words near cokebottle in the dictionary

  1. coke oven gas
  2. coke whore
  3. coke whores
  4. Coke's hartebeest
  5. coke-bottle
  6. cokebottle
  7. cokebottles
  8. coked
  9. coked out
  10. coked up
  11. cokefiend

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