Definition of: bottle

(bot′l) noun
1. A vessel for holding, carrying, and pouring liquids, having a neck and a narrow mouth that can be stopped.
2. As much as a bottle will hold: also bot′tle·ful.
3. In the U.S., a unit of capacity for wines or spirits, equal to approximately 26 fluid ounces.
4. The act or habit of drinking intoxicants.
—to hit the bottle To drink to excess.
—v.t. ·tled, ·tling
1. To put into a bottle or bottles.
2. To restrain; shut in, as if in a bottle: often with up or in. [<OF bouteille, botel <LL buticula flask, dim. of butis vat, vessel]
—bot′tler noun