bottlo

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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[1], 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.

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