bottle-sucker

English

Noun

bottle-sucker (plural bottle-suckers)

  1. (slang) A boozer, especially one who drinks from the bottle rather than a glass.
    • 1924 January 2, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 2, column 5:
      He has ascertained that a large number of "bottle-suckers" frequent this locality to consume beer.
  2. (slang) A baby or infant, or an adult who behaves as one.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 135:
      Some years before, the Colonel commanding had looked into the fourteen fearless eyes of seven plump and juicy subalterns who had all applied to enter the Staff Corps, and had asked them why the three stars should he, a colonel of the Line, command a dashed nursery for double-dashed bottle-suckers who put on condemned tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments.
    • 2019, Greg DeHart, Hey America Listen Up: An Appeal of A Man of God‎[1], Christian Faith Publishing:
      Have we not created a generation of perpetual "bottle suckers" (babies in respect to being personally responsible)?
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