"bottoms" in the noun sense

1. bottom, underside, undersurface

the lower side of anything

2. bottom

the lowest part of anything

"they started at the bottom of the hill"

3. buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

"he deserves a good kick in the butt"

"are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

4. bottom, bottom of the inning

the second half of an inning while the home team is at bat

5. bed, bottom

a depression forming the ground under a body of water

"he searched for treasure on the ocean bed"

6. bottomland, bottom

low-lying alluvial land near a river

7. bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship

a cargo ship

"they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms"

"bottoms" in the verb sense

1. bottom

provide with a bottom or a seat

"bottom the chairs"

2. bottom

strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom

3. penetrate, fathom, bottom

come to understand

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