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bottom-shelf

bottom-shelf adjective: cheap or low-quality.

Adjective

bottom-shelf (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Cheap or low-quality.
    • a bottle of bottom-shelf wine
    • Ryder had a soft spot for off-brand soda, since that was what they'd had often when he was in charge, and they were living off a shoestring. Nothing wrong with bottom-shelf cereal and grape soda; not in his opinion.2020, Maisey Yates, The Hero of Hope Springs

Synonyms of bottom-shelf

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Questions about bottom-shelf

What does bottom-shelf mean?
Bottom-shelf means cheap or low-quality.
What part of speech is bottom-shelf?
Bottom-shelf is an adjective.

Words near bottom-shelf in the dictionary

  1. bottom-posted
  2. bottom-poster
  3. bottom-posters
  4. bottom-posting
  5. bottom-posts
  6. bottom-shelf
  7. bottom-tier
  8. bottom-up
  9. bottom-upwards
  10. bottomage
  11. bottomaged

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