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wind up one's bottoms

wind up one's bottoms verb: to finish a job.

Verb

wind up one's bottoms (third-person singular simple present winds up one's bottoms, present participle winding up one's bottoms, simple past and past participle wound up one's bottoms)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To finish a job.
    • Myself and the Dr went ashore today to wind up our bottoms1770, Joseph Banks, The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, entry for 1770 February 5 http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#banks

Forms of wind up one's bottoms

third-person singular presentwinds up one's bottoms
present participlewinding up one's bottoms
past participlewound up one's bottoms
pastwound up one's bottoms

Questions about wind up one's bottoms

What does wind up one's bottoms mean?
Wind up one's bottoms means to finish a job.
What part of speech is wind up one's bottoms?
Wind up one's bottoms is a verb.
What is the past tense of wind up one's bottoms?
The past tense of wind up one's bottoms is wound up one's bottoms.

Words near wind up one's bottoms in the dictionary

  1. wind tunnel testing
  2. wind tunnels
  3. wind turbine
  4. wind turbines
  5. wind up
  6. wind up one's bottoms
  7. wind ups
  8. wind vane
  9. wind vanes
  10. wind'ard
  11. wind-bell

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