squeeze bottle

noun

: a bottle of flexible plastic that dispenses its contents when it is squeezed

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People ate off paper plates, added hot sauce from squeeze bottles and bopped their heads under purple lights, pausing now and then to toss back an oyster. Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025 Alfred Hitchcock notoriously used a recent innovation, the plastic squeeze bottle, to give the blood in Psycho’s (1960) shower scene a realistic drip and splash effect. Mark Hay, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025 Apart from four silicone squeeze bottles, this kit comes with two mini spray bottles, a hand pump bottle, and two mini jars. Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2025 The polyolefins Marks is referring to are what trash bags, plastic wrap, squeeze bottles, and other disposable single-use packaging are made of. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for squeeze bottle

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of squeeze bottle was in 1950

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“Squeeze bottle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/squeeze%20bottle. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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