Usually means: Start drinking alcohol excessively regularly.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hit the bottle: Merriam-Webster
  2. hit the bottle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hit the bottle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. hit the bottle: Wiktionary
  5. hit the bottle: Dictionary.com
  6. hit the bottle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit the bottle: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hit the bottle: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hit the bottle)

verb:  (idiomatic, colloquial) To drink alcohol steadily and in excess, particularly in response to a setback.

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