Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) to leave, esp. after an unpleasant disagreement.

1947		M.H. Boulware Jive and Sl.
1955		W. Broonzy Big Bill’s Blues 109: ‘[T]hey made us bottle up and go, but I’m going back and get my guitar’.
1957		The Enchanters [song title] Bottle Up and Go.
1981		R. Palmer Deep Blues 52: An old friend would show up with a guitar and news of a house party or a big picnic a few miles down the road, and Charley would bottle up and go.