beerbottle

plural beerbottles

1. alternativeattributiveoftenrareAlternative form of beer bottle.

   Bloodworth paused, drank from the amber beerbottle. He glanced covertly at Coble to see how he was taking all this. He thought he might have been ladling it on a trifle heavy.

   2000, William Gay, Provinces of Night, New York, NY: Anchor Books, published 2002, →ISBN, page 94

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   It saved the colonel, but the indignant gente threw beerbottles and cushions and everything they could lay hands on, shrieking with rage. The cuadrilla and Colonel Ireland and Felipe and the Mexican officers and police were all injured by missiles.

   1966, Southwest Review, volumes 51–52, page 165

   a very miraculous thing just happened: / my beerbottle flipped over backwards / and landed on its bottom on the floor, / and I have set it upon the table to foam down, / but the photos were not so lucky today […]

   1968, Charles Bukowski, “'Beerbottle'”, in At Terror Street and Agony Way, Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, page 5

   The Army base overlooking the Otto Beit suspension bridge is equally decrepit, the gate unattended. An empty beerbottle winks russet in the guardhouse. A few languid, unshod soldiers shuffle out to greet us.

   2002, Dan Wylie, Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War, Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, →ISBN, page 60

   She lifted her beerbottle again, recrossed her legs, the skirt going HIGHER, jesus have mercy, the skirt going HIGHER, all that leg, all that thigh, all that red HAIR, god. ¶ I got up and pulled the beerbottle from her mouth and put my dirty bearded face to hers, […]

   2011, Charles Bukowski, edited by David Stephen Calonne, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, →ISBN, page 17