| 单词 | dead marine |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdead marine dead marine n. (see dead marine at marine n. 2d). dead marine d. slang (now chiefly Australian). An empty bottle, esp. a beer-bottle; frequently in dead marine. Cf. marine officer n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > emptiness > an empty container > bottle marine officer1785 marine1806 1806 J. Davis Post-Captain 26 Don't you see the bottle is a marine! 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. vii. 48 To see their case-bottles properly filled,—no marines among them,—with plenty of grog in their lockers. 1888 J. B. Stephens Drought & Doctrine in D. B. W. Sladen Austral. Ballads & Rhymes 240 We had filled a dead marine, sir, at the family water-hole. 1928 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Feb. 25/1 The dead marine is put to all sorts of uses out back. I have seen many a grave in village cemeteries neatly surrounded with inverted empties. 1947 K. Lewis Coast to Coast 186 Down amongst the tawny kangaroo-grass clumps the sun glinted on two dead marines... He put the two bottles inside his shirt. 1967 Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 19 Mar. 13/2 The market value for ‘dead marines’ is 10 cents a dozen—and as publicans pointed out, tens of thousands of bottles of beer are sold each week in Brisbane. < as lemmas |
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