"Glass bottle" (vb)

[Wilson Gray]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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> It may not fit all the cites, but consider the possibility that
> "glass-bottle" means (or will someday mean) "to throttle."
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> Just a Yank's wild guess.
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> JL

But, according to the rules of rhyming slang, wouldn't we expect "to
glass" to come to mean "to throttle"?

-Wilson

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> Dave Hause <dwhause at JOBE.NET> wrote:
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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
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> 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, dwhause at jobe.net
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> Since Google inconveniently doesn't allow one to distinguish parts of
> speech in searches, "glass bottle" is useless as a search phrase, and
> strings like "to glass bottle" and "glass bottled" aren't as helpful
> as I'd hoped at first they might be. Adding "violence" to the search
> field did turn up this article, though:
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> Surgeon on glass bottle 'weapon'
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3211769.stm
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