coke bottle

adjective

Having thick lenses.

“Coke-bottle glasses”

Meanings

coke bottle1

adjectivecoke bottle (not comparable)

alternative coke-bottle · alternative Coke bottle · alternative Coke-bottle · alternative cokebottle

  1. not comparableHaving thick lenses.

    Coke-bottle glasses

    3 more examples

    Nuggy was a barber, I think a teach-yourself, do-it-yourself barber, he was 70, had Coke bottle glasses and Dad loved him.

    1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 111

    Short and shy, he seems timid as he looks out through coke-bottle glasses. But for the past several years, 52-year-old astrophysicist Fang Lizhi has been China's best-known dissident - a relentless critic of the ruling Communist party

    1989 March 1, Ben Tierney, “High-profile Dissident a Quandary for Beijing”, in Montreal Gazette

    I just picked out new glasses this week! I’ve worn them since I was 5 and I hated them. They were big brown cokebottle things that threatened to break the bridge of my nose.

    2013 March 14, A [username], “What I’ve Learned About Wearing Glasses Every Day for 20 Years”, in Alpha Mom, comments
  2. not comparableThick

coke bottle2

adjectivecoke bottle (not comparable)

alternative coke-bottle · alternative Coke bottle · alternative Coke-bottle · alternative cokebottle

  1. not comparableHaving a type of styling characterized by wide ends and a narrow midsection.

Origin

coke bottle · adjective

In allusion to the thick glass traditional Coca-Cola bottles were made of.

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coke bottle · adjective

In allusion to the tapered shape of Coca-Cola bottles.

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APA

coke bottle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coke%20bottle

MLA

“coke bottle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coke%20bottle. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coke bottle,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coke%20bottle.

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