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bottle episode
[ bot-l ep-uh-sohd ]
noun
- an episode of a television series set in a single limited or confined location, such as a hotel room or a broken elevator, and often using only a few regular cast members, sometimes undertaken as a cost-cutting measure or as a creative challenge.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bottle episode1
First recorded in 2000–05; perhaps modeled on ship in a bottle or to bottle up
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Example Sentences
I did a bottle episode and then I was writing a mockumentary the next time.
From The Daily Beast
It seems a small matter to us now that Charles Dickens should have been ashamed of the blacking-bottle episode of his boyhood.
From Project Gutenberg
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