Bottom may refer to:

Anatomy and sex

Bottom (BDSM) The terms top, bottom, and switch are used to describe roles for the duration of a sexual act or they may more broadly denote a psychological, social, or sexual identity, or indicate one's usual preference. The terms top, bottom, and switch are al ...

, 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'' * 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 Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

Geography

Bottom (valley) A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over ...

, the floor of a valley **

List of geographical bottoms Bottom is used in the name of several geographical features: *Bottom, North Carolina, small unincorporated community in the Stewarts Creek Township of northern Surry County, North Carolina * Bottom Bay, on the southeast coast of Barbados, between ...

, 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 Prescott (also known as The Lower Bottoms or The Bottoms) is a residential neighborhood and commercial district in West Oakland in Oakland, California. The neighborhood boundaries are Mandela Parkway to the east, 7th Street to the south, West Gran ...

or The Bottoms, a neighborhood in Oakland, California, U.S. * St. Paul's Bottoms or The Bottoms, a neighborhood in

Shreveport, Louisiana Shreveport ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge, respectively. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, with a population of 393,406 in 2020, is t ...

Seabed The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics. Most of ...

, the floor of the ocean or ocean bottom *

Stream bed A stream bed or streambed is the bottom of a stream or river (bathymetry) or the physical confine of the normal water flow (Channel (geography), channel). The lateral confines or channel margins are known as the stream Bank (geography), banks ...

, the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek * The Bottom, capital of the island of Saba *

The Bottom (neighborhood in Dallas, Texas) The Tenth Street Freedman's Town is a historic African American community in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas. A freedmen's town is a community settled by former slaves who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War. The freedm ...

, a neighborhood in the Tenth Street Freedman's Town, Dallas, Texas, U.S. * The Bottoms, an area in

Franklinton (Columbus, Ohio) Franklinton is a Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just west of Downtown Columbus, Ohio, its downtown. Settled in 1797, Franklinton is the first American settlement in Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County, and was ...

, United States

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 or price pattern is a pattern within a chart when prices are graphed. In stock and commodity markets trading, chart pattern studies play a large role during technical analysis. When data is plotted there is usually a pattern which n ...