Foggy Bottom

noun
1.
a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
2.
Informal. the U.S. Department of State, whose office building is located in this area.
Foggy Bottom in Culture

Foggy Bottom definition


A nickname for the United States Department of State, whose offices were built in a formerly swampy area of Washington, D.C., known as Foggy Bottom because of vapors rising from the swamp.

Slang definitions & phrases for Foggy Bottom

Foggy Bottom

noun phrase

The US Department of State:little affinity for the ''career boys'' of Foggy Bottom

[1950+; fr the name of a marshy region in Washington, DC, where the State Department and other federal buildings are located; also an allusion to the murkiness of some policies and pronouncements]