Word.ws English Dictionary

loses one's bottle

loses one's bottle is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lose one's bottle.

Meaning of lose one's bottle

Verb

lose one's bottle (third-person singular simple present loses one's bottle, present participle losing one's bottle, simple past and past participle lost one's bottle)

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To lose courage and determination.
    • “You'll never lose your bottle for football,” Kate promised him. “No matter how long you'll be out for. Keep the faith, Shaggy. Nothing is set in stone forever. The bloke who nicked the Sea Journey has to be caught.”2005, Forest Jones, The Greatest English Detective Club #1, →ISBN, page 49
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lose, bottle.

Questions about loses one's bottle

What is loses one's bottle the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Loses one's bottle is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lose one's bottle.

Words near loses one's bottle in the dictionary

  1. loses it
  2. loses no time
  3. loses one's balance
  4. loses one's battle
  5. loses one's bearings
  6. loses one's bottle
  7. loses one's cookies
  8. loses one's cool
  9. loses one's head
  10. loses one's heart
  11. loses one's life

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: loses one's bottle (page history and authors); lose one's bottle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “loses one's bottle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/loses_one%27s_bottle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.