Green’s Dictionary of Slang

see bottom woman

a male homosexual.

1993		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 61: We went off in search of bottom bandits.
2001		Observer Sport Monthly 4 Mar. 56: This would represent quite a Pauline conversion for the man who, at the Sun, used to refer to gays as [...] botty burglars.
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 100: Who gives a rat’s about a few bottom bandits.

see bottom woman

(US gay) one who enjoys anal intercourse.

1976

J. Hayes ‘Gayspeak’ Quarterly Journal Speech LXI 256–66: In the social setting people are not only typed by the usual distinctions [...] but by sexual preference (bottom boy: anal receptor, suck queen: fellator).

a fart; generally a children’s usage, but popularized on BBC TV’s 1980s comedy The Young Ones.

2001

N. Wilkes ‘Big Brother’ on Digital Spy 🌐 As Elizabeth queried the strange smell in the room, Amma increased her reputation as the house’s number one farter with a bottom burp of biblical proportions.

(US) a swindler, a cheat.

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 12/1: Bottom dealer, a card cheater who deals off cards from the bottom of the deck.
2000		(con. 1940s–60s) Décharné Straight from the Fridge Dad.

a despicable, unpleasant person; thus bottom-feeding adj.

1988		T. Harris Silence of the Lambs (1991) 19: Hardly the best brains on the campus. Organized and disorganized — a real bottom-feeder thought of that.
1997		Mad mag. May 6: Alan says Larry is a lowlife, bottom-feeding, amoral kind of guy.
1999		Guardian G2 16 Aug. 12: The fascination with lowlifes and bottom-feeders.
2000		J. Ellroy ‘I’ve Got the Goods’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 173: My dad was a Hollywood bottom-feeder. He used to work for Rita Hayworth.
2005		G. Pelecanos Drama City 169: She was looking for a [...] bottom-feeder named Tyrone Meadows.
2022		A. Kirzman Giuliani 79: [A] boozy black-tie charity event filling the Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom with [...] assorted government hacks and bottom-feeders.
2023		M. Herron Secret Hours 312: [O]ne of the bottom feeders, who stamped on faces or broke fingers.

see arse-grapes under arse n.

see bottom woman

(US black) to have sexual intercourse.

2006

G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 209: Bottom-knocking that thing on a bed of clean sheets.

see bottom woman

the vagina.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: bottomless pit. The Monosyllable.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 85: Creux, m. The female pudendum; ‘the bottomless pit’.

see separate entries.

see main sense above.

(US black) a wife.

1979

‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 39: I lost my bottom rib and our daughter in a car crash a month before I split the joint.

(UK tramp) a road leading from London to the South Coast.

1936

W.A. Gape Half a Million Tramps 199: We took what is known as the ‘bottom road’, in other words, we made straight for the south coast, then followed it west.

see separate entry.

1. (also bottom, bottom baby, …bitch, …ho, …lady) the most reliable and experienced of a pimp’s stable of prostitutes.

1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 210: There ain’t more than three or four good bottom women promised a pimp in his lifetime. [Ibid.] 225: I’m sure glad Chris is a boss bottom bitch.
1972		Milner & Milner Black Players 40: Many players have several ladies, who constitute their stable. Usually the player relies on one to help him recruit new additions, known as stable sisters. This, his key lady, is called the bottom woman. It is her responsibility to help instruct the new recruits, smooth over squabbles, and generally keep things running smoothly. Often the pimp has a special relationship with the bottom woman, and they stay together for years while transient additions come and go. [Ibid.] 77: Shannon, who is the ‘bottom bitch’ of Mitchell’s stable.
1977		J.L. Dillard Lex. Black Eng. 88: The most trusted one – often the oldest in his service and not necessarily the most beautiful or the favorite – is the bottom whore, bottom woman, bottom bitch, or main lady and is given a certain amount of authority over her ‘sisters.’ She is also sometimes called Mother.
1979		‘Iceberg Slim’ Airtight Willie and Me 34: I ain’t gonna let you throw my bottom ’ho [...] in no cross with that crazy Nigger.
1981		A.K. Shulman On the Stroll 132: At twenty-eight she was the bottom lady of Sweet Rudy.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 bottom bitch Definition: a pimp’s best girl. Example: All them other ho’s don’t matta, ’cause you my bottom bitch.
2002		G. Pelecanos Hell to Pay 141: You my bottom baby. You know this, right?
2006		G. Pelecanos Night Gardener 228: Was Lacy his bottom?
2010		A. Steinberg Running the Books 260: Although referred to by the title ‘bottom bitch,’ she is the top prostitute on this team [...] the bottom bitch has brought in the biggest cash return.
2012		J. Robinson Gospel of the Game 9: Bianca, my most reliable and bottom whore, sat at my side.

2. one’s (attractive) girlfriend.

1980

E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 142: Terms for a sexually attractive woman are all shared with the pimp – bottom woman, star.

see bet one’s (sweet) ass under bet v.

the crown of a woman’s head.

c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: The Bottom of a Woman’s ****. The Crown of her head.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn) n.p.: The bottom of a woman’s tu quoque; the crown of her head.

see under deal v.

see under drop v.⁴

to leave a mouthful of alcohol in the glass, considered rude to one’s fellow-drinkers.

1640

‘Mary Tattle-well’ Womens sharpe revenge 179 Taverne frayes or brawls have hapned [...] sometimes for not drinking all out (which is term’d, winding up your bottom, footing off your Bowle).