bottlecap
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- noun
- /ˈbɑtəlˌkæp/
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tapa de botella
- Joe's machine dispenses those six-and-a-half-ounce Cokes made delicious by the faint tang of green glass, bottlecap, and memory.
Examples
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She collected all the bottlecaps from her favorite drinks to use in her art project.
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I opened the soda bottle and placed the bottlecap on the table.
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Take the Bottlecap case as an example.
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And a bottlecap for a hat!
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Down at the bottlecap, Z is drying himself off.
Fiction book (1998) -
Base 13 steelies with the factory bottlecaps.
Blog text (26) -
After finishing the drink, he discarded the bottlecap in the recycling bin.
Synonyms
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A top that covers a container like a jar or pan
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A cover that fits over the top of a container like a bottle
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A stopper made from tree bark used to close a bottle, especially wine
A lid you open by turning to remove from a bottle or jar
A cap for a bottle that you twist to open or close
A small plug that closes the top of a bottle, often for wine
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bottlecap is a simple compound of bottle and cap, where cap means 'cover' or 'lid'. So a bottlecap is the small cover that seals a bottle and keeps the drink inside.