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says:
\"bottle - courage, balls. eg \"he lost his bottle\", \"he bottled out\", \"he's
got a lot of bottle\". The most common explanation of this term is that it
comes from the Rhyming Slang 'bottle and glass' - 'arse'. ie. To loose ones
bottle, to loose ones arse (incontinence produced by fear).
bottler - someone who 'bottles' out, see above.\" |