Meanings
- informalnot comparableCheap or low-quality.
a bottle of bottom-shelf wine
2 more examples
Ryder had a soft spot for off-brand soda, since that was what they'd had often when he was in charge, and they were living off a shoestring. Nothing wrong with bottom-shelf cereal and grape soda; not in his opinion.
2020, Maisey Yates, The Hero of Hope Springs2019, Todd Wagner: 30-Minute Overview of Come and See Instead of trusting that God's plan for us is what we desire, we try to find fulfillment in the "bottom-shelf candy" of compromise or isolation that seems right to us.
Synonyms: affordable, brand X, cheap and nasty, coffee-and, bargainous, brand X, budget, cheap
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCheap or low-quality.
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bottom-shelf. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottom-shelf
“bottom-shelf.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bottom-shelf. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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