" bottle "

[Noun]  | "bot*tle" | \ ˈbä-tᵊl \

1: a rigid or semirigid container typically of glass or plastic having a comparatively narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle

2: a usually bottle-shaped container made of skin for storing a liquid

3: the quantity held by a bottle

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English botel, from Old French botele, from Medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of Late Latin buttis cask;

[Noun]  | "bottle blond" 

1: a person whose hair has been bleached blond

Origin: 1898 ;

[Noun]  | "bottle club" 

1: a club serving patrons previously purchased or reserved alcoholic drinks after normal legal closing hours

Origin: 1935 ;

[Noun]  | "bottle episode" 

1: an inexpensively produced episode of a television series that is typically confined to one setting

Origin: 2003 ;

 Earlier bottle show, of uncertain origin;

  * Note : The notion that the phrase grew out of the television series Star Trek is contravened by Robert H. Justman, a coproducer of the original Star Trek. In discussing the alternation of "planet shows" with "ship shows" on the series, Justman mentions that "most other series called them [ship shows] 'bottle shows,' but regardless of what they were called, their purpose was the same: to save money by 'bottling up' the action … Our ship shows took place entirely on board the Enterprise and cost much less to produce" (Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman, Inside Star Trek: the Real Story, Pocket Books, 1996, p. 253). In The Outer Limits: The Official Companion (New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1986) the book's authors David J. Schow and Jeffrey Frentzen attribute the coinage of bottle show to Leslie Stevens, producer of the series The Outer Limits (1963-65): "No one believed Leslie Stevens when he proposed to complete an Outer Limits episode in four days … until he went ahead and did it. The skeleton of 'Controlled Experiment' [broadcast 13 January 1964] was typed up by Stevens on a New York to LA flight, and the show took four and a half shooting days to complete. At $100,000, it was the cheapest Outer Limits ever. Stevens dubbed this last-minute lifesaving technique the 'bottle show'—as in pulling an episode right out of a bottle like a genie. 'When they know you can do it, and do it fast, you become the fire department, to bail the show out of trouble,' said Stevens" (p. 86). (Schow and Frentzen interviewed Leslie Stevens expressly for the book.);

[Noun]  | "bottle gourd" 

1: a common cultivated gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) having a variably shaped fruit with a hard shell that is sometimes used as a container

Origin: 1597 ;

[Noun]  | "bottle green" 

1: a dark green

Origin: 1789 ;

[Noun]  | "bottle rocket" 

1: a firework typically consisting of a cylindrical case that is partly filled with combustible material and fastened to a guiding stick which may be placed in a bottle to control the direction of the rocket's launch

Origin: 1939 ;

[Noun]  | "bottle bank" 

1: a large container that people put empty bottles in so that the glass or plastic the bottles are made from can be used again

[Verb]  | "bottle" 

1: to confine as if in a bottle : restrain —usually used with up

2: to put or keep in a position or situation that makes free activity, progress, or escape difficult or impossible —usually used with up

3: to put into or as if into a bottle

Origin: 1594 ;

[Verb]  | "bot*tle-feed" | \ ˈbä-tᵊl-ˌfēd \

1: to feed with a bottle

Origin: circa 1869 ;

[Noun]  | "bottle" 

[Noun]  | "bottle club" 

[Noun]  | "bottle clubs" 

[Verb]  | "bottle (up)" 

[Verb]  | "bottle-fed" 

[Verb]  | "bottle-feed" 

[Verb]  | "bottle-feeding" 

[Verb]  | "bottle-feeds" 

[Phrase]  | "hit the bottle" 

[Phrase]  | "hits the bottle"