bottle whore
- noun
- Slur
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[término ofensivo para una mujer que pide bebidas gratis]
- She didn't want to be called a bottle whore just because she accepted a few free drinks.
Examples
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Some people criticize the way bars encourage bottle whores to attract big spenders.
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Don't be such a bottle whore at the party!
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He accused his ex-girlfriend of acting like a bottle whore at the nightclub.
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She is known as a bottle whore among her friends.
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She felt insulted when her friends called her a bottle whore for accepting free drinks at the bar.
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At the club, people often label women as bottle whores if they socialize primarily for free drinks.
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He made a joke about being a bottle whore after accepting yet another complimentary cocktail from a stranger.
Synonyms
A person who drinks too much at parties and seeks free drinks
Surface Forms
Morphology
bottle + whore
This is a slang, derogatory coinage where 'whore' is used metaphorically to mean someone who sells or gives themselves for gain and 'bottle' specifies the object of pursuit; a learner who knows both words could plausibly infer ‘someone who seeks bottles/free drinks’. However, the expression is colloquial, pejorative and relies on cultural/pragmatic knowledge and figurative use of 'whore', so the precise nuance and register may not be fully predictable to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Bottle whore may come from nightclubs where people buy expensive bottles for a table. People used bottle and the rude word whore to describe someone who hangs close to those bottles to get 'free drinks' or 'attention', so today it means 'a person who seeks free drinks or attention'.
