Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also bottle off) to hit someone (in the face) with a (broken) bottle.

1844		T. Hood ‘Masonic Secret’ Works (1862) VII 20: Throttle him! Bottle him! Pound him!
1903		Sun. Times (Perth) 26 July 1/1: When refused a drink in a leading hotel he threatened to bottle the barmaid.
1926		L. Esson Bride of Gospel Place 88: Bill: (takes bottle from pocket) [...] Come on! I’ll bottle you off!
1949		Sun. Herald (Sydney) 20 Nov. 1s/4: Should he bottle them or—? [...] The bottle splintered and broke leaving a great jagged edge [...] ‘Where would you like it? in the face? Would you like your ugly mug ripped open with this?’.
1953		‘John Eagle’ Hoodlums (2021) 20: [B]ottled to death in a dismal passageway.
1962		R. Cook Crust on its Uppers 42: Got himself bottled and razored in a punch-up over at the Elephant.
1971		K. Gilbert Cherry Pickers III i: You watch yer mouth or I’ll bottle ya!
1973		B.S. Johnson All Bull 24: There was the night Scouse Jenkins bottled the duty officer.
1980		J. McClure Spike Island (1981) 100: You get bottled, you get stoned.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 39: John has bottled Christy after he refused to go back and apologise to Alison Noble.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 66: Ennyway a bottled a cunt. Well, a fuckin moren bottled im, didn I, a smashed a fuckin bottle over is fuckin ead and stuck a fuckin spikey end in is fuckin feyce.
2001		N. Barlay Hooky Gear 135: Scars on his shave head from ancient bottlins.
2008		Metro (London) 16 May 29/4: Another was bottled over the head and a colleague lost his front teeth after being head-butted.
2010		IOL News (western Cape) 19 Mar. 🌐 I’m almost afraid to interact with the twins in case I get bottled by a jealous girl.
2020		G. Armstrong Young Team 44: Bottlin Si wis bold as fuck.

2. to impair the performance of.

1851		‘Epistle from Joe Muggins’s Dog’ in Era (London) 20 Apr. 4/3: Mountaine Sylph colt orte to win, if thay doante ‘bottel’ ither ther Squire or his oss, and that’s wat I'm affeerd an.
[1940		M. Marples Public School Slang 21: bottle (Sherborne). More or less equivalent to floor — e.g. ‘I’ll get bottled in every paper,’ ‘I must do enough work to avoid getting bottled’].

3. to render drunk.

1869		Liverpool Dly Post 11 Feb. 5/5: He was taken to a committee room [...] the night before the election, where men were ‘bottled’ and kept drunk all night.
1880		Burnley Exp. 6 Nov. 5/1: Men only waited [...] to boast openly of how many eledctors of the opposite side had been ‘bottled’, or kept drunk and incapable.
1888		Leeds Times 7 July 3/6: Some liberal electors had been ‘bottled’ (filled drunk) and quietly disposed of.