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dead soldier
n. (context slang English) An empty container, usually a bottle or can which contained an alcoholic beverage.
Usage examples of "dead soldier".
A few wisps of hair fell across the dead soldier's face, now frozen in a sleeplike serenity.
Without waiting for an answer, she carried Jones' dead soldier away to be revivified.
To the right the lion-headed monster squatted down over a dead soldier, ripping loose an arm at which he began to gnaw.
The dead soldier had a companion next in line, a terrorist now exposed from the thick cover of trees, who was in panic.
Henry's banner he could not see, but he recognized Henry's presence with each step that he retreated and with each lost, dead soldier he had to leave behind.