Meaning

5 senses
  1. A person, company, or thing who bottles, especially in bulk.

  2. A truck used for transporting bottled goods in crates.

  3. (UK, slang)A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure.

  4. A Punchman's assistant who collects money ("bottle") from the audience.

  5. (Australia, New Zealand, often, slang)A person or thing that is excellent or admirable.

More definitions
  • a manufacturer that makes and bottles beverages

Origin

From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of

From Middle English boteller, botullere, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of butler.

* Perhaps from the idea of something being of a high quality and worthy of preservation by bottling, probably from the phrase "good enough to bottle"; compare corker.

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Forms

plural: bottlers
Singularbottler
Pluralbottlers

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
person or group prone to unexpected failure:choker

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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