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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɒ.pə/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtɔ.pə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.pɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
topper (plural toppers)
- Something that is on top.
- 2009 January 26, Cameron Adams, “Sniffer dogs have their Big Day Out”, in Herald Sun[1]:
- UK act the Prodigy will headline the Boiler Room, with chart toppers the Ting Tings playing at 2.15pm on the green stage.
- 1999, John Yeoman, Self Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium (page 55)
- Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.
- A top hat.
- 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
- This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.
- Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
- (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN:
- She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
- A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
- (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
- (colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.
- 1953, August 29, Billboard (page 4)
- Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]
- 1953, August 29, Billboard (page 4)
- A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
- 1980, Barry Targan, Kingdoms (page 24)
- At first, in the pines, he had worked as a topper in his strong and boldest days, walking up the trees two hundred feet […]
- 2007 October 14, Amanda Hesser, “2000: Le Bernardin’s Croque-Monsieur”, in New York Times[2]:
- The only problem is that the best egg toppers, which are different from egg cutters, are an investment — the Inox professional egg topper is $55 at surlatable.com .
- 1980, Barry Targan, Kingdoms (page 24)
- One who tops steel ingots.
- A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
- A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
- (dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
- 1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco (page 189)
- One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a "topper," dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]
- 1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco (page 189)
- (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
- A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
topper m (plural toppers)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Noun[edit]
topper m
- indefinite plural of topp
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