gin bottle
(slang, obsolete) A person addicted to drinking gin.
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(slang, obsolete) A person addicted to drinking gin.
"I and a friend happened to be renting a room over it at the time the old woman who owned it fell downstairs and damaged herself severely. Old Mrs Dibble, round in Abbot Street." "That old gin-bottle! I thought she only ran a marine stor…
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- ginned70%
Dated British slang meaning drunk, specifically heavily intoxicated. The term is a direct derivation from gin, the spirit historically associated with cheap, mass public drunkenness in 18th- and 19th-century England — think Hogarth's Gin Lane. While largely obsolete in everyday speech today, it occasionally surfaces in historical fiction, period dramas, or used ironically by those fond of vintage slang.
- bottle-sucker70%
(slang) A boozer, especially one who drinks from the bottle rather than a glass.
- ginned70%
(dated, slang) drunk.
- bottled69%
(slang) drunk.
- gin blossom66%
A female alcoholic.