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bottom-post en · NOUN

Etymology

From bottom + post.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, dated) A post on an online forum whose contents are placed below a quoted message which is being replied to.
    • If you don't like to read bottom posts - don't. No one is going to change so let it be. 2001 October 4, Don D., “SkriptKiddie Trying something”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet):

Forms

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bottom-posts Number=Plur lexicographic

bottom-post en · VERB

Etymology

From bottom + post.

Meanings

  1. (Internet, dated, intransitive, transitive) To make a bottom-post.
    • The proper netiquette on this list is to "bottom post," which means that you reply to a previous poster's comments after the original comment. 2004, Rickford Grant, Linux for Non-Geeks, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 294:

Forms

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bottom-posted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bottom-posted Tense=Past lexicographic
bottom-posts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
bottom-posting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

bottom-poster

Relateds

top-post · side-post