dead soldier

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Noun

dead soldier (plural dead soldiers)

(idiomatic, slang) An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage.
- 1968 — Flesh And Blood By William Handley (1968) p.15
  Another Dead Soldier! (Lays the bottle gently on its side.)
- 1999, Elliott Smith, “Baby Britain”, in XO:
  We knocked another couple back / The dead soldiers lined up on the table
- 2000 — Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 By Andrei Codrescu, Laura Rosenthal (2000) p. 344
  When my mother drinks beer, she peeks in the bottle to make sure it's a dead soldier.
- 2002 — Thread of the Spider By Val Davis (2002) p. 117
  By the time the pint was a dead soldier, Decker had the man's life story.

Translations

empty container

French: (slang) cadavre (fr) m

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