bottler
/ˈbɑtəlɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.16 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person or group that fails to meet expectations, especially one prone to such failure.
British usage; Slang
Example Sentences
- "They shall provide all bottlers with face guards,[…]."
- "1994 May 30, Shawn Willett, PC tools help Coke add life to flat AS/400 data, InfoWorld, page 63, Such data is of great value both to the bottlers and to Coca-Cola′s sales and marketing groups. “When the bottler looks at this information, he might be interested in how a certain supermarket is performing, while we in the company are interested in how much, for example, McDonald’s is buying in the Southeast,” Aviles notes."
- "Note 8, “Noncontrolled Bottling Affiliates” (Appendix A), indicates that PepsiCo owns approximately 40 percent of the common stock of some of its bottlers."
- "Maritime Transport runs a train from the bottler of Cola-Cola in Tilbury, six days a week. It started in 2022, and the bottler says it will save four million road miles a year and 15,000 lorry journeys, moving 2.5 million cans and bottles on the train each day."
- "In Kiwi language anyway, the Minister of Industries and Commerce will go down in history as a real bottler in every sense of the word."
- "Mum's a real bottler and you′ll find her very sympathetic."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɑtəlɚ/
Usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage