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Definition of Bottom out
1. Verb. Reach the low point. "Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while"
2. Verb. Hit the ground. "The car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road"
Definition of Bottom out
1. Verb. (intransitive) to reach the bottom, to reach the nadir or low point. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottom Out
Literary usage of Bottom out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of a Ranger: Or, Early Times in Southern California by Horace Bell (1881)
"... lo Fill it Up— General Stoneman Knocks the bottom out of It— A Tradition— The
Ship of the Desert. after the massacre of John Glanton and his party, ..."
2. Modernism in Religion by James Macbride Sterrett (1922)
"It is the general spirit of our modern age that is knocking the bottom out of
many good old forms. And what are we doing to meet this condition of many ..."
3. Trust Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of by Henry De Lamar Clayton (1914)
"... and since the boat rates are about one-tenth of the rail rates, we will have
to take the bottom out of your market in Green Bay in that way," leaving us ..."
4. Socialism and Superior Brains: A Reply to Mr. Mallock by Bernard Shaw (1912)
"In doing so, he knocks the bottom out of ... polemics he has knocked the bottom
out of the vulgar sectarianism that passes for religion in this country. ..."
5. Journal of Voyages: Containing an Account of the Author's Being Twice by Jacob Dunham (1850)
"The carpenter hove the schooner's bottom out and repaired her in three or four
days ; but I was detained eight days in obtaining a permit to land the cargo ..."
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