Meaning & use
bottomless drinks
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Meaning
nounplural
A restaurant or bar offer where you can keep getting more of the same drink without paying extra each time.
Grammar: Usually plural and used with a plural verb: 'Bottomless drinks are included.' For one type, say 'bottomless coffee' or 'bottomless soda'.
Patterns
- bottomless drinks included
- bottomless drinks for a fixed price
- offer bottomless drinks
The brunch menu comes with bottomless drinks for an extra ten dollars.
We chose that restaurant because it has bottomless drinks on Sundays.
Bottomless drinks are popular at parties because guests can refill their glasses themselves.
Common combinations
- bottomless drinks included
- The package price is $25, with bottomless drinks included.
- bottomless drinks offer
- The bar's bottomless drinks offer runs every Friday evening.
- bottomless brunch
- They booked a bottomless brunch for her birthday.
- bottomless soda
- Kids love the bottomless soda at that diner.
Synonyms and how they differ
- free refills
- More common in American English and usually refers to soft drinks, not alcohol.
- unlimited drinks
- A more neutral, formal way to say the same thing; it does not suggest a special restaurant deal.
Word family
- bottomless adjective
- Having no bottom, or (of drinks) unlimited.
Commonly confused: bottomless drinks or endless drinks?
bottomless drinks vs endless drinks
'Endless' can also mean seemingly without end in time; 'bottomless' specifically means you can keep refilling.
Practice
The pub advertises ______ drinks every Saturday, so you can refill your glass as often as you like.
Choose one answer.
'Bottomless' is the fixed adjective in this restaurant phrase. 'Bottom' is a noun or verb, and 'bottomed'/'bottoming' are verb forms that do not fit before 'drinks' here.
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