bottleholder

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bottleholder

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From bottle (“from the bottle of water that is provided to the fighter”) + holder

noun bottleholders · bottle holder · bottle-holder

colloquial A person who attends a boxer during a bout.
Similar: bottleman
broadly, colloquial One who assists or supports another in a contest; a backer. he has called me the bottle-holder of my right honourable friend

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@misc{bottleholder_2026,
  title = {bottleholder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bottleholder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}