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Definition of get to the bottom of

get to the bottom of

verb

  • to figure out something unknown.
                                                                                                                                                 

    Citation from "Food allergies get curiouser and curiouser, NewScientist, Andrew Watson, 29 July 2009 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
    • See more words with the same meaning: to search.

    Last edited on Oct 07 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 29 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'to search':

Definitions include: misspelling of Google.
Definitions include: in a non-computing context, to search.
Definitions include: to search the ground for already-smoked yet salvageable cigarette butts. Note: usually performed by homeless.
Definitions include: an unattractive female or one with a bad reputation.
Definitions include: to use a search engine to get information about a current or past love interest.
Definitions include: talent in using the Google search engine.
Definitions include: to do an internet search on someone or something.
Definitions include: acronym for "Google that shit".

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Other terms relating to 'bottom':

Definitions include: a girl with a thick ass
Definitions include: homosexual male who prefers being sodomized rather than sodomizing during sex.
Definitions include: a fart
Definitions include: a useless or low-class person.
Definitions include: free refills.
Definitions include: a person with an insatiable appetite.
Definitions include: with sincere emotion.
Definitions include: childish name for the female genitalia.
Definitions include: a made up sexual maneuver in which a person places saran wrap on their face, and another person defecates on the saran wrap.
Definitions include: to be at one's lowest point in life.
Definitions include: to be at one's lowest point in life.
Definitions include: A lady's private parts.
Definitions include: of low priority.
Definitions include: twinkie is a 2b robbed by flashing an extremely sexually deprived mark and getting all you can take.

Other terms relating to 'get':

Definitions include: very; really; extremely.
Definitions include: a phrase of one is about to be in trouble big-time or something bad is about to happen.
Definitions include: "Get ready for some serious trouble."
Definitions include: "buy one get one" free.
Definitions include: don't be mistaken; "believe it".
Definitions include: from the beginning.
Definitions include: acronym for "get back to work".
Definitions include: to leave.
Definitions include: to have sex with someone who is not one's significant other.
Definitions include: to acquire a buzz.
Definitions include: to be excited by.
Definitions include: to enjoy.
Definitions include: see clue.
Definitions include: to steal.
Definitions include: to ingest a drug.

Other terms relating to 'of':

Definitions include: a worthless person.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: of lower than average intelligence.
Definitions include: "not all there".
Definitions include: skittish.
Definitions include: an amount of violence.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: an impressive.
Definitions include: many.
Definitions include: an emphatic "yes".
Definitions include: better than all that.
Definitions include: the best.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

Other terms relating to 'to':

Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: See nine to five.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority.
Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to revisit one's past.
Definitions include: to go back to the beginning.
Definitions include: extreme; "all out".
Definitions include: to be vastly superior.
Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else.
Definitions include: to be unintelligible.
Definitions include: to do.
Definitions include: more important things to deal with.
Definitions include: to kill or destroy.

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