pop bottle
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1.1
- noun
- /pɑp ˈbɑtəl/
- US
:
botella de refresco
- After finishing my soda, I tossed the empty pop bottle into the recycling bin.
- soda pop bottle
- plastic pop bottle
- empty pop bottle
Examples
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The company has collected more than 10,000 pop bottles from local scout troops, churches, youth groups, and school classrooms.
Blog text (3) -
Every penny was a penny earned or money from cashing in pop bottles for the two-cent refund.
Blog text (19) -
I pretend not to notice him standing by the pop bottles, watching me with his big eyes.
Fiction book (1991) -
Hey, do you have one of those empty plastic pop bottles?
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Those pop bottles of yours have been collecting dust for weeks.
Fiction book (1992) -
I go around gathering up pop bottles so I can buy cigarettes.
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Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles, and beer bottles to the store.
Blog text (19) -
2-liter pop bottles are easily accessible and can be stored anywhere.
Blog text (18) -
He was standing near the front end of the cart, amidst an assorted pile of cigarette boxes, egg cartons, and pop bottles.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the picnic, everyone enjoyed their drinks from colorful pop bottles.
Synonyms
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1.0
A container with a narrow neck for holding drinks or other liquids
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1.0
A bottle that holds a soft drink like cola
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pop' (a carbonated drink) + 'bottle' (a container) yields a bottle that holds pop, so a learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. This noun–noun naming pattern (content + container) is common cross-linguistically, making the expression immediately transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
The compound pop bottle comes from the small 'pop' sound you hear when you open a fizzy drink. The word pop names that sound and bottle is the container, so pop bottle means 'a bottle for soft drinks'.