bottleholder

English

Alternative forms
  • bottle holder
  • bottle-holder

Etymology

bottle +‎ holder, from the bottle of water they provided to the fighter.

Noun

bottleholder (plural bottleholders)

  1. (colloquial) A person who attends a boxer during a bout.
    Synonym: bottleman
  2. (colloquial, by extension) One who assists or supports another in a contest; a backer.
    • October 17, 1796, John Philpot Curran, speech on Catholic Emancipation‎:
      he has called me the bottle-holder of my right honourable friend

References

bottleholder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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