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BOTTOMS UP!

a call to drink; to empty one’s glass
BOTTOMS UP!
1. We had better finish our drinks because the bar is closing. Bottoms up!
2. Young Timmy did not want to drink his medicine, but bottoms up! his mother insisted as she pressed the glass into his hands.

The expression suggests the idea that the bottom of one’s glass will be up when one drinks. It is informal.


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