1. Where the sides of a ship curve in to form the bottom
   "Water had accumulated in the bilge and needed to be pumped out"
    
2. Water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
   "The crew had to pump out the foul-smelling bilge water";
   - bilge water
    
3. [informal] Statements or beliefs that are untrue or make no sense
   "He dismissed the conspiracy theory as pure bilge";
   - bunk [informal], bunkum [informal], buncombe [informal], guff [informal], rot [informal], hogwash [informal], flapdoodle [N. Amer, informal], Irish bull [slang], rhubarb [Brit, informal], junk [informal], bull [slang], nonsense, jive [N. Amer, informal], bushwah [N. Amer, informal], bushwa [N. Amer, informal], folderol, rubbish [informal], tripe [informal], trumpery [archaic], trash [informal], wish-wash [informal], applesauce [N. Amer, informal], codswallop [Brit, informal], falderal, drivel, garbage

1. (of a ship) hole and leak water
   "the tanker bilged";
   - take in water
    
2. Damage the bilge of a ship so that it leaks
   "the collision bilged the vessel"

Derived forms: bilging, bilged, bilges

Type of: bottom, content, damage, H2O, leak, message, subject matter, substance, underneath, underside, undersurface, water

Part of: vessel, watercraft

Encyclopedia: Bilge, Mazıdağı