Definition of "bottom out" [bottom out]

• To reach the bottom, to reach the nadir or low point. (verb)

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• "“Now I feel,” he said cautiously and intensely, “that if you and me was mates, we could put any damn mortal thing through, if we had to knock the bottom out of the blanky show to do it.”"
• ""If someone knew in advance when Ho-Pak stock'd bottom out and either bank, or both, were launching a bail-out operation, that person could make a fortune.""
• "Three torpedoes, striking in quick succession amidships on the starboard side, ripped the bottom out of Royal Oak."