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bottlo


an alcohol shop - usually a bottle shop or drive-through bottle shop attached to a pub: While you're out can you go to the bottlo for some more beers?


Contributor's comments: widely used in Sydney.

Contributor's comments: We used the term in the 1940s to refer to the men who drove aound the Melbourne suburbs in trucks collecting empty bottles from homes. I do not know how it was spelled, maybe it was Bottle-O.

Contributor's comments: I love using this term around foreigners.. it confuses them a lot.