beer bottle
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1.0
- noun
- /bɪr ˈbɑtəl/
:
botella de cerveza
- After the party, we found several empty beer bottles on the kitchen table.
I was AI would collect the beer bottles at a local pool and recycle them.
- I was AI would collect the beer bottles at a local pool and recycle them.
Examples
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Next to the sink were three glass beer bottles, empty, ready to be recycled.
Fiction book (1993) -
Jim moved away, drained his beer bottle, and placed it on the rail.
Fiction book (1998) -
The beer bottle looked massive in her tiny little hands.
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Did you boys order these empty beer bottles?
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I knocked a beer bottle down in the kitchen.
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With her right hand, she tilted a beer bottle into her glass and went on with her story.
Fiction book (1996) -
"Hey," my father said to the waitress, extending his empty beer bottle to her.
Fiction book (1992) -
We made our way to the back of the lawn, stumbling over beer bottles and bodies.
Fiction book (1990) -
Deanna reaches for the beer bottle, but LeVon raises it out of her reach.
Fiction book (1996) -
After climbing up three flights of stairs, I've just discovered I've got nothing but a lot of empty beer bottles.
Synonyms
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1.0
A container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids
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6.9
A beer bottle with a long, narrow neck
A drink served in a glass or glass bottle, often in a pub
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Morphology
The meaning 'a bottle for holding beer' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'beer' and 'bottle'—a straightforward noun+noun compound following regular English compounding patterns. This construction is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Beer bottle is a simple compound that joins beer and bottle to name a container made for beer. People put beer into glass bottles to keep it fresh and easy to carry, so today beer bottle means 'a bottle for holding beer'.