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| bottoms | |
| 1. n. plural of bottom |  |
| 2. n. (plurale tantum) The bottom (trouser) part of clothing, as in pyjama bottoms, tracksuit bottoms. | |
| bottom | |
| 1. n. The lowest part of anything. | |
| Footers appear at the bottoms of pages. | |
| 2. n. (UK, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment. | |
| lack bottom | |
| 3. n. (UK, US) A valley, often used in place names. | |
| Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom? | |
| 4. n. The buttocks or anus. | |
| 5. n. (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship. | |
| 6. n. (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater. | |
| 7. n. (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat. | |
| 8. n. (BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity. | |
| 9. n. (LGBT, slang) A man penetrated or with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse. | |
| 10. n. (physics) A bottom quark. | |
| 11. n. (often, figuratively) The lowest part of a container. | |
| 12. n. A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon. | |
| 13. n. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea. | |
| 14. n. An abyss. | |
| 15. n. (obsolete) Power of endurance. | |
| a horse of a good bottom | |
| 16. n. (obsolete) Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment. | |
| 17. n. (usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil. | |
| 18. v. To fall to the lowest point. | |
| 19. v. To establish firmly; to found or justify on or upon something; to set on a firm footing; to set or rest on or upon something which provides support or authority. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To rest, as upon an ultimate support; to be based or grounded. | |
| 21. v. (intransitive) To reach or impinge against the bottom, so as to impede free action, as when the point of a cog strikes the bottom of a space between two other cogs, or a piston the end of a cylinder. | |
| 22. v. (obsolete, transitive) To wind round something, as in making a ball of thread. | |
| 23. v. To furnish with a bottom. | |
| to bottom a chair | |
| 24. v. To be the submissive in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. | |
| 25. v. To be anally penetrated in gay sex. | |
| I've never bottomed in my life. | |
| 26. adj. The lowest or last place or position. | |
| Those files should go on the bottom shelf. | |
