Green’s Dictionary of Slang

champagne.

1902		C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 44: We [...] were jogged to a truly rural wetworks further up the Boulevard. Here we had more bubbles.
1903		‘Hugh McHugh’ I Need The Money 29: He was so deeply interested he forgot to dip up the bubble-juice.
1919		‘Bartimeus’ ‘Narrative of Commander W.D. Hornby’ in Awfully Big Adventure 120: Lord knows why I should have been rammed up in bed while all you pirates lapped up bubbly and made a night of it.
1925		E. Jervis 25 Years in Six Prisons 58: I forget whether we had a case of the ‘bubbly’ sent in.
1925		N. Lucas Autobiog. of a Thief 145: Have some more bubbly-wine.
1930		E. Waugh Vile Bodies 249: Talking of drinks, I’ve got a case of bubbly in the car.
1940		E. O’Neill Iceman Cometh Act II: I drinks dat old bubbly water in steins!
1945		G. Fairlie Capt. Bulldog Drummond 102: You can finish the bubbly.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 35: bubbles Champagne.
1953		L. Doyle Back to Ballygullion 158: Hallo! Have some bubbly.
1960		(con. c.1928) D. Holman-Hunt My Grandmothers and I (1987) 177: Crikey, we don’t want tea. I brought a case of bubbly from the club.
1977		C. McFadden Serial 110: We’re running out of the bubbly.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 121: Lady Cynthia plucked the bottle of bubbly out of its ice.
1986		F. Taylor Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 304: Kenny poured him a glass of bubbly.
1992		R.G. Barrett White Shoes 10: Galivanting around in the sun, sipping champagne. You still drink plenty of bubbly, KK?
1997		Ma$e ‘Niggaz Wanna Act’ 🎵 We crisp bub sippers, strip club niggas.
1999		K. Sampson Powder 22: Couldn’t find us a bottle of that bubbly everyone’s gassed on?
2000		P. Temple Dead Point (2008) [ebook] Might have the bubbly in the study, love.
2003		50 Cent ‘In da Club’ 🎵 You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub.
2006		H. Blofield on Test Match Special 13 May [BBC radio] Maybe you can get out another bottle of bubbly.
2008		Sun. Times (S.Afr.) 6 Jan. 13: Quaffed down with lots of French bubbly, of course!
2008		Loon ‘How You Want That’ 🎵 Get a bottle of bub.
2010		IOL News (western Cape) 8 Apr. 🌐 Sip a glass of seriously posh bubbles.
2010		L. Redhead Thrill City [ebook] I’m bored out of my mind. Come up and have some bubbly.
2012		Chief Keef ‘Kay Kay’ 🎵 I ordered the bitch a bubbly / And I got some Henny for me.
2018		G. Gilmore Class Act [ebook] ’I’m going to have some more bubbles; do you want a glass?’.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 145: ‘Get this bubbly down your gargler’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 686: ‘Shall we have some bubbles?’.