spin the bottle

noun

: a kissing game in which one has as a partner the person a bottle points to when it stops spinning

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Parton's 1980 hit was chosen as Carpenter's nightly surprise cover song in a game of spin the bottle, according to fan footage on social media. Jack Irvin, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024 Walz let Vance get away with Stop the Steal diction and spin the bottle to make censorship and cancel culture Harris’ fault. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024 During the spin the bottle challenge, Rob picked Destiny and Daniela as the two hottest islanders to share a three-way kiss with. Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 2 July 2024 Herptathlon: Seven competitors spin the bottle. Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021 At a party, a girl asks him to play spin the bottle. Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020 In the original scene, David Rose (Levy), Alexis Rose (Annie Murphy), and Stevie (Emily Hampshire) play a round of spin the bottle with their significant others, Patrick (Noah Reid) and Ted (Dustin Milligan). Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020 In the clip, from Season 5 Episode 5 of the show, Levy (who plays David) and Dustin Milligan (Ted) as well as Emily Hampshire (Stevie), Annie Murphy (Alexis) and Noah Reid (Patrick) are seen playing spin the bottle. Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2020 Kissing-endurance contests will go the way of flagpole sitting, previously cast into the land of obsoletion, and what about the coming-of-age spin the bottle? Marc Bona, cleveland, 26 Apr. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of spin the bottle was in 1955

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“Spin the bottle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spin%20the%20bottle. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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