The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - bottlen.

1) flask, container; fiasco, decanter: The milkman left two bottles of milk. 2) courage, nerve, manliness, manfulness, grit, backbone, gumption, mettle, pluck, Dutch courage, Slang guts; Colloq spunk, starch, US moxie: He was going to tell her off but lost his bottle at the last minute. 3) the bottle. alcohol, alcoholic drink, spirit(s) , liquor, booze, sauce: He's back on the bottle after only two weeks of being on the wagon. --v. 4) bottle up. a contain, restrain, hold back, control, suppress, repress, hold or keep in check, stifle: All the emotions, bottled up for so long, burst upon him at once, and he wept pitiably. b trap, cut off, hem in, box in: With the help of the posse, we can bottle up the gang in the canyon.