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bottoms on

bottoms on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bottom on.

Meaning of bottom on

Verb

bottom on (third-person singular simple present bottoms on, present participle bottoming on, simple past and past participle bottomed on)

  1. (transitive) To ground or base on.
    • Unversed in financial projects and calculations and budgets, his approbation of them was bottomed on his confidence in the man. But Hamilton was not only a monarchist, but for a monarchy bottomed on corruption.1839, Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Observations on the writings of Thomas Jefferson

Questions about bottoms on

What is bottoms on the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bottoms on is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bottom on.

Words near bottoms on in the dictionary

  1. bottomries
  2. bottomry
  3. bottoms
  4. bottoms of the hour
  5. bottoms of the hours
  6. bottoms on
  7. bottoms out
  8. bottoms the house
  9. bottoms up
  10. bottoms up squat
  11. bottoms up squats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bottoms on (page history and authors); bottom on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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