bottoms

/ˈbɒt.əms/

IPA: /B AA1 T AH0 M Z/

noun

1
The lowest part of anything.
“Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.”
2
Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
“lack bottom”
3
Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
“Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?”
4
The buttocks or anus.
5
A cargo vessel, a ship.
6
Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
7
The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
8
(BDSM) A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
9
A person with a preference for being penetrated during sexual intercourse.
10
A bottom quark.
11
The lowest part of a container.
12
A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
13
The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
14
An abyss.
15
Power of endurance.
“a horse of a good bottom”
16
Dregs or grounds; lees; sediment.
17
(usually: bottoms or bottomland) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

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verb

1
To furnish (something) with a bottom.
“to bottom a chair”
2
To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
3
To establish or found (something) on or upon.
4
(chiefly in passive) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
5
To be based or grounded.
6
To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
7
To reach the bottom of something.
8
To fall to the lowest point.
9
To be the more passive or receiving partner in a sexual act or relationship; to be submissive in a BDSM relationship; to be anally penetrated in gay sex.
“I've never bottomed in my life.”

noun

1
The bottom (trouser) part of clothing, as in pyjama bottoms, tracksuit bottoms.

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