aristotle1
/ˈarɪstɒt(ə)l/noun Australian /NZ rhyming slang
A bottle: it was his fourth for the morning by the look of the three empty aristotles rolling around on the car floor...
- He told the accused that he was going to arrest them. Regan said. "Oh, are you?" and called out. "Pass me an 'Aristotle.'"
- Seein' as I knows 'ow y're partial to the stuff, I thought I brin' y' an Aristotle.
- We make money from your empty Aristotles.
Aristotle2
/ˈarɪstɒt(ə)l
/ (384–322 bc), Greek philosopher and scientist.
A pupil of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he founded a school (the Lyceum) outside Athens. He is one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western thought and his work was central to Islamic and Christian medieval philosophy. His surviving works cover a vast range of subjects, including logic, ethics, metaphysics, politics, natural science, and physics