messages in a bottle

A form of message in a bottle — A message written on a scrap of paper, rolled up and put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean; traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of message in a bottle
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