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Dave Hause wrote:<br>
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Sender: American Dialect Society
Poster: Dave Hause
Subject: Re: "Glass bottle" (vb)
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With absolutely no literary citation, but an ex-cop's memory, I would
suggest that "glass bottle" as a verb refers not to using it as a club
but
to smashing it in the middle of the dilated part, using the neck as the
handle, and using the broken end as a cutting or slashing weapon.
Dave Hause, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dwhause@jobe.net">dwhause@jobe.net</a>
Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
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I missed some of this thread - notably its inception, so my apologies
if this has already been put forward - but Dave Hause's suggestion fits
with the UK use of the slang verb <i>glass</i>, a term which has been
around since at least the 1930s and means to slash someone's face by
hitting them there with a broken beer glass or bottle. It is,
unsurprisingly, a popular means of violence within public houses. With
respect to JL, <i>glass bottle</i> has yet to appear in any collection
of rhyming slang I have encountered. Indeed I can't trace any term that
means to throttle. Given the mutability of the rhyming slang lexis,
this of course doesn't guarantee that it isn't out there somewhere.<br>
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Jonathon Green<br>
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