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dead soldier en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, slang) An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage.
   • By the time the pint was a dead soldier, Decker had the man's life story. 2002, Val Davis, Thread of the Spider, page 117:
   • We knocked another couple back / The dead soldiers lined up on the table 1999, Elliott Smith, “Baby Britain”, in XO:
   • Another Dead Soldier! (Lays the bottle gently on its side.) 1968, William Handley, Flesh and Blood, page 15:
   • When my mother drinks beer, she peeks in the bottle to make sure it's a dead soldier. 2000, Andrei Codrescu, Laura Rosenthal, Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998, page 344:

Forms

Hypernyms

empty

Hyponyms

dead marine · dead man

Relateds

dead marine

Translations (1)

fr cadavre (empty container)