gin bottle

noun

gin bottle

noun
1

Obsolete, Slang A person addicted to drinking gin.

  • "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."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 88:

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