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gin bottle

gin bottle noun: a person addicted to drinking gin.

Noun

gin bottle (plural gin bottles)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A person addicted to drinking gin.
    • "I and a friend happened to be renting a room over it at the time the old woman who owned it fell downstairs and damaged herself severely. Old Mrs Dibble, round in Abbot Street." "That old gin-bottle! I thought she only ran a marine store or a junk shop."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 88

Forms of gin bottle

pluralgin bottles

Questions about gin bottle

What does gin bottle mean?
Gin bottle means a person addicted to drinking gin.
What part of speech is gin bottle?
Gin bottle is a noun.
What is the plural of gin bottle?
The plural of gin bottle is gin bottles.

Words near gin bottle in the dictionary

  1. gin berry
  2. gin block
  3. gin blocks
  4. gin blossom
  5. gin blossoms
  6. gin bottle
  7. gin bottles
  8. gin bucket
  9. gin buckets
  10. gin burglar
  11. gin burglars

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