What Is A Bottle Club?

Not what you may think!

Bottle Club n. A private establishment where patrons may purchase bottles of liquor and keep them for consumption after legal closing hours, or a club serving drinks to members who have reserved or purchased their own bottles of liquor. First appeared in 1943.

Don't you think it's time that the dictionaries were updated with a new definition for bottle club?

How About These !

Bottled in Bond, U.S. (of a straight whiskey or brandy) bottled at 100 proof after aging at least four years and being stored untaxed under government supervision until removed by the manufacturer for market.

Bottle Green, A deep green. -bot'tle-green', adj. First appeared in 1804.

Bottle Party, A party to which guests bring their own liquor (sometimes all liquor brought is poured into a single container and is called "Whoppatoolee", spelling may not be correct).

Nursing Bottle n. A bottle with a rubber nipple used in supplying food to infants.

How many more definition variations can you find and add to this list?

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Sources - The Random House College Dictionary, Revised Edition, 1984.

The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, 1985.

The New Roget's Thesaurus - In Dictionary Form, 1978.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

More bottle definitions - added March 7, 1997

Bottle. informal. a. Intoxicating liquor: Don't take to the bottle. b. The practice of drinking large quantities of intoxicating liquor: Her problem is the bottle. Attributive - Often used to modify another noun; bottle soda, a bottle recycling program; a three-bottle man, i.e. who drinks three bottles of wine at a sitting; to pass the bottle of smoke, to give countenance to conventional falsehood, to cant; to bring up on the bottle - an infant reared by means of a feeding-bottle; over a bottle while drinking.

Source - The American Heritage dic-tion-ar-y of the English Language, 1992

From The Oxford English Dictionary, 1933, comes this definition for a bottle - a bundle of hay or straw; to look for a needle in a bottle of hay.

I came across these other bottle terms too.

bottle bill - a legislative bill that requires the charging of a refundable deposit on certain beverage bottles and cans, to encourage the return of these containers for recycling while at the same time reducing littering.

bottle cap - a device for closing or sealing a bottle, esp. a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle, origin c. 1925-30.

The Oxford English Dictionary, 1933, had many bottle words formed from combining or attributive. I'm listing some of them, followed by a year they were earliest found in literature. Bottle-ale (1597), bottle-beer (1641), bottle-belly (1804), bottle-case, bottle-cider, bottle-conjuror (1755), bottle-cork (1791), bottle-drink (1683), bottle-faucet, bottle-filter, bottle-maker (1483), bottle-rinsing, bottle-room, bottle-stand, bottle-stopper, bottle-works (1695), bottle-bravery (1850), bottle-companion (1711), bottle-friend, bottle-swagger, bottle-talk, bottle-bellied (1820), and bottle-like (1849).

    The above didn't have specific definitions but rather the dictionary provided the phrase or sentence, with reference to author/source, it was found in.

More bottle words from the same source with definitions.

bottle-bearer (1580), one who carries a bottle, a butler.

bottle-boot, a leather case to hold a bottle while corking.

bottle-boy (1857), an apothecary's assistant.

bottle-charger, an apparatus for charging bottles with a liquid under pressure.

bottle-chart, a chart of ocean surface currents compiled from data by means of bottles thrown from ships and subsequently picked up at a distance.

bottle-clay (1679), a clay of which earthenware bottles were made.

bottle-coaster (1801), a stand on which decanters were passed round the table.

bottle-drainer or bottle-rack (1801), a frame in which inverted bottles are placed to drain.

bottle-dropsy (1562), dropsy affecting the abdomen only.

bottle-fish, a fish which can inflate its body so as to resemble a leathern bottle.

bottle-heath (1863), bell-heather (Eric tetralix).

bottle-holder (1753), one who holds a bottle; spec. one who waits on a pugilist; a second, a backer or supporter.

bottle-house (1702), a building in which bottle-glass is made.

bottle-imp (1822), an imaginary imp inhabiting a bottle.

bottle-jack (1869), a jack for roasting meat, shaped like a bottle.

bottle-man (1630), a servant or official who has charge of bottles.

bottle-nest relates to the bottle-tit or bottle-tom, the Long-tailed Tit (Parus caudatus) from the shape of its nest.

bottle-nosed (1568), having a bottle nose, ex. a dolphin or whale.

bottle-track, the track taken in the ocean by a bottle thrown overboard at a given point.

bottle-washer (1865), one who or a machine which washes bottles.

bottle-ore (1756), a kind of sea-weed.

bottle-pear (1601), a kind of pear so called from its shape.

bottle-screw (1702), a corkscrew.

bottle-slider or slide (1785), a tray for a decanter.

bottle-stone, a variety of obsidian.

bottler (1415), 1. a bottle-maker. 2. One who bottles liquor.

bottle-head, a variation of Beetle-Head; a stupid fellow.

bottle-stoop, a block of wood with a groove on the upper surface, so sloped that the contents of a bottle placed upon it may be easily removed with a knife in dispensing.

    Sorry, but I didn't come across any term that would lend itself to defining a bottle collector. How about the Federation [of Bottle Collectors] creating a bottle word dictionary and also come up with a word to define what a bottle collector is? I can see that there would be multiple definitions possible because of hobby related activities. The dictionary could also include all other terms used in glass/bottle making and the hobby, like bottle digger.