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English
Etymology
From bottle + holder, from the bottle of water they provided to the fighter.
Noun
bottleholder (plural bottleholders)
- (colloquial) A person who attends a boxer during a bout.
- Synonym: bottleman
- (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.