Meaning & use
bottomless brunch
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Meaning
nouncountableinformal
a meal between breakfast and lunch where you can drink as much alcohol as you want for a fixed price
Grammar: Countable: 'a bottomless brunch', 'two bottomless brunches'.
Patterns
- go for a bottomless brunch
- a bottomless brunch at a place
- bottomless brunch deal
We booked a bottomless brunch for my birthday.
The restaurant offers a bottomless brunch every Saturday and Sunday.
She doesn't drink, so a bottomless brunch isn't really her thing.
Word forms
| plural | bottomless brunches |
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Common combinations
- bottomless brunch deal
- The pub has a bottomless brunch deal for groups of four.
- go for a bottomless brunch
- Let's go for a bottomless brunch this weekend.
- bottomless brunch menu
- The bottomless brunch menu includes pancakes and unlimited mimosas.
- book a bottomless brunch
- I booked a bottomless brunch at that new place downtown.
Synonyms and how they differ
- boozy brunch
- Informal and means a brunch with alcohol, but it does not necessarily include unlimited drinks.
Word family
- brunch noun
- a meal eaten in the late morning, combining breakfast and lunch
- bottomless adjective
- having no bottom; in this phrase, it means unlimited
Commonly confused: bottomless brunch or brunch?
bottomless brunch vs brunch
Brunch is just the meal; 'bottomless brunch' adds the idea of unlimited drinks for a set price.
Practice
What does 'bottomless brunch' mean?
Choose one answer.
'Bottomless' here means unlimited drinks, not unlimited food or an endless meal. The fixed price is a key part of the deal.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bottomless brunch”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.