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

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, list of geographical features called "bottom" *

Bottomland (freshwater ecology) Upland and lowland are conditional descriptions of a plain based on elevation above sea level. In studies of the ecology of freshwater rivers, habitats are classified as upland or lowland. Definitions Upland and lowland are portions of p ...

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

Franklinton (Columbus, Ohio) Franklinton is a neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just west of its downtown. Settled in 1797, Franklinton is the first American settlement in Franklin County, and was the county seat until 1824. As the city of Columbus grew, the city annexed and ...

, 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 ...