What does bottom out mean?

bottom out means "reach the low point". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is the opposite of bottom out?

The recorded antonyms are top out.

Is bottom out a common word?

bottom out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Bottom out — meaning, with 2 senses

verb

2 sensesAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
reach the low point
“Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while”
Antonymstop out
Broaderreach
2.
hit the ground
“the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road”
Broaderhit

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What does bottom out mean?: bottom out means "reach the low point". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

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