bottlo

English

Alternative forms

• bottle-o

Etymology

From bottle +‎ -o.

Noun

bottlo (plural bottlos)

1. (Australia, informal, obsolete) A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A shop that sells alcoholic beverages.
   • 2008, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates Australia: House of Representatives‎, volume 13, page 3169:

     My local bottlo tells me that the sales of ready-to-drinks have slightly decreased but there has been a sharp increase in the sale of 750-millilitre bottles of straight spirits.

Synonyms

• (shop that sells liquor): bottle shop (Australia), liquor store (US), off-licence (UK)

Anagrams

• Blotto, blotto, tolbot