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bottle-o

noun

Meaning

A bottle shop; a liquor store.
(dated) A person who collected and sold empty bottles.

Example

Can you swing past the bottle-o on the way home?

Origin

From 'bottle' with the Australian '-o' suffix.

Variants

bottlo, bottle shop, bottle-oh

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