topper
See also: Topper
English
Etymology
From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpə(r)
Noun
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.
- Something for cutting off the top of something.
- 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 .
- Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
- A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
- Head, chief.
- (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
- One who tops steel ingots.
- (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
- 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. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
- A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
- (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
- (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.
- A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
Related terms
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
topper m (plural toppers)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
topper m
- indefinite plural of topp
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