Bottom may refer to:

Anatomy and sex

  • Bottom (BDSM), the partner in a BDSM who takes the passive, receiving, or obedient role, to that of the top or dominant
  • Bottom (sex), a term used by gay couples and BDSM
  • Buttocks or bottom, part of the anatomy on the posterior of the pelvic region of apes and humans, and many other bipeds or quadrupeds

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • Bottom (TV series), a British sitcom and stage show
  • "Bottom", a song by Puddle of Mudd from Life on Display
  • "Bottom", a song by Tool from Undertow
  • Bottom, a 2011 film by Todd Verow
  • Nick Bottom, a character from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • The Bottoms (novel), a 2000 novel by Joe R. Lansdale
  • Bottoms, a 1966 film by Yoko Ono
  • Bottoms (film), a 2023 film by Emma Seligman

Geography

  • Bottom (valley), the floor of a valley
  • List of geographical bottoms, list of geographical features called "bottom"
  • Bottomland (freshwater ecology), low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river
  • Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
  • Lower Bottoms, Oakland, California or The Bottoms, a neighborhood in Oakland, California, U.S.
  • St. Paul's Bottoms or The Bottoms, a neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana
  • Seabed, the floor of the ocean or ocean bottom
  • Stream bed, the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek
  • The Bottom, capital of the island of Saba
  • The Bottom (neighborhood in Dallas, Texas), a neighborhood in the Tenth Street Freedman's Town in Dallas, Texas, U.S.
  • The Bottom, a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
  • The Bottoms, a neighborhood in Franklinton (Columbus, Ohio), U.S.

Mathematics

  • Bottom, or falsum, a contradiction in logic and Boolean algebra
  • Bottom element, in lattice theory and related branches of mathematics
  • Bottom type, in type theory (the bottom element in the subtype relation)
  • The symbol up tack (⊥), used to represent these concepts

People

  • Bottom (surname), people with the surname Bottom
  • Bottoms (surname), people with the surname Bottoms

Other uses

  • Bottom (technical analysis), a chart pattern in the technical analysis of securities
  • Bottom quark, a subatomic particle
  • Trousers, Shorts and other "bottom wear", pieces of clothing to cover the lower portion of the body, particularly the legs.

See also

  • Bott
  • Bottoming (disambiguation)
  • Bottomry