bottom

noun

1. The lowest part of anything.

   “Footers appear at the bottoms of pages.”

2. A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.

   “There's a hole in her pyjama bottoms.”

3. Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.

   “a soda and a bottom of brandy”

4. The far end of somewhere.

   “There’s a fairy at the bottom of my garden.”

   “I walked to the bottom of the street.”

5. UKslangCharacter, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.

6. The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.

7. now chiefly usLow-lying land; a valley or hollow.

   “Where shall we go for a walk? How about Ashcombe Bottom?”

8. usually: bottomsbottomlandLow-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.

9. euphemismThe buttocks or anus.

10. often figurativelyThe lowest part of a container.

11. The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.

12. An abyss.

13. nauticalA cargo vessel, a ship.

14. nauticalCertain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.

Ellipsis of bottom quark.

verb

1. To furnish (something) with a bottom.

   “to bottom a chair”

2. To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).

3. To establish or found (something) on or upon.

4. chiefly in passiveTo lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.

5. mechanicsTo reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.

6. To reach the bottom of something.

7. To fall to the lowest point.

8. bdsmTo be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.

9. gay slangTo be anally penetrated in gay sex.

   “The only time I ever bottomed in my life, my sphincter was pierced.”

10. Strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

11. Come to understand

    Similar: penetrate, fathom

adjective

1. The lowest or last place or position.

   “Those files should go on the bottom shelf.”

2. transgenderRelating to the genitals.

   “bottom dysphoria”

   “bottom surgery”