bossmod. excellent; powerful; superior.
That is a boss tune. This rally is really
boss.
boss dickn.a cop; a police officer. (Streets.
See dick= detective.) There’s a whole
p-crutch stuffed full of boss dicks behind
you. The boss dick slugged me in the face
and said I should be more careful.
boss ladyn. the woman in charge. Yo u’ l l
have to ask the boss lady. The boss lady
asked again for volunteers.
boss mann. the man in charge. The boss
man’s coming. Watch out! I guess the
boss man is about ready to retire.
both sheets in the windmod. alcohol in-
toxicated. (See also three sheets in the
wind.) She’s both sheets in the wind at
the moment. She’s not just both sheets
in the wind—they’re all in the wind.
bottle 1. n. a drunkard. The bar was
empty save an old bottle propped against
the side of a booth. That old girl is just
a bottle. There’s more booze in her than
outside. 2. thebottle n. liquor. (Always
with thein this sense.) Her only true
love is the bottle. The bottle plays a big
role in his life. 3. in. to drink liquor to ex-
cess. I wish there was a way I could get
through the day without bottling. Let’s
go out and bottle into oblivion.
bottleache[“badlek] n. a hangover; the
delirium tremens. A lot of these guys
really suffer from the bottleache, but what
can they do? I got a touch of the bottle-
ache this morning.
bottle babyn. an alcoholic. The bottle
babies sat there, waiting to be thrown out
at closing time. There is help for bottle
babies.
bottom 1. n. the buttocks. Ted fell on his
bottom and just sat there. My bottom
is sore from sitting too long. 2. n. the sec-
ond half of a baseball inning. It’s the
bottom of the second, Wilbur’s up.
Wilbur hit a double-bagger in the bottom
of the second. 3. tv. to drink something to
the bottom. He bottomed the beer and
ordered another one. Come on. Bottom
that beer, and let’s get out of here.
bottom dollarn. one’s last dollar. (See also
bet one’s bottom dollar.) I lost my
bottom dollar on that deal. I’m down
to my bottom dollar. How about a little
loan?
bottom fishingn. seeking something at its
lowest price; seeking something at a low
cost and willing to accept inferior qual-
ity. I don’t think bottom fishing for
stocks is always wise. There is always a
good reason why the price is low. Bot-
tom fishing probably won’t get you any-
thing of value.
bottomless pit 1. n. a very hungry person.
The guy is a bottomless pit. There isn’t
enough food in town to fill him up. I’ve
got two boys, and they’re both bottomless
pits. 2. n. an endless source of something,
usually something troublesome. This
house is a bottomless pit. Keeping it up is
endless. Our problems come from a bot-
tomless pit. There is just no end to them.
thebottom line 1. n. the grand total; the
final figure on a balance sheet. (Securi-
ties markets.) The company’s bottom
line is in bad shape. If the bottom line
is positive, everything is okay. 2. n. the re-
sult; the nitty-gritty;the score. The
bottom line is that you really don’t care.
Well, when you get down to the bottom
line, it’s only money that matters.
bottom of the barrel and bottom of the
heapn. the location of persons or things
of the very lowest quality. (Usually with
from. See also scrape the bottom of the
barrel.) That last secretary you sent me
was really from the bottom of the barrel.
I don’t need any candidates from the
bottom of the heap.
bottom of the heapGo to bottom of the
barrel.
bottom outin. to reach the lowest or worst
point of something. All my problems
seem to be bottoming out. They can’t get
much worse. Interest rates bottomed out
last February.
Bottoms up.sent. Let us drink up! (A
drinking toast.) Well, bottoms up.
They all raised their glasses, and the host
said, “Bottoms up.”boss