(Australia, informal, obsolete) A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
(Australia, informal, obsolete) A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
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(Australia, NZ) A liquor store.
(Australia, NZ, informal) A shop that sells alcoholic beverages.
Bottle shop is the Australian and New Zealand term for a liquor store — the place you go to pick up beer, wine, spirits, or whatever you need for the weekend. In Australia particularly, many bottle shops are attached to pubs (called drive-throughs) and are a completely standard part of suburban life. While Americans say liquor store or off-license (UK), Australians just say bottle shop or the shortened 'bottlo' if they're in a hurry, which they often are when it's near closing time.
(New Zealand, South Africa) A liquor store.
(Australia, NZ, informal) A bottle shop.
For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
"bottle-o" means: A bottle shop.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"bottle-o" means: A bottle shop.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.