gin bottle

English

Noun

gin bottle (plural gin bottles)

1. (slang, obsolete) A person addicted to drinking gin.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 88:

     "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 store or a junk shop."