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▪ I. ˈtop-off, n. Austral. slang.
[Of obscure origin: cf. top v.1 6 and tip v.5 2.]
An informer. Also top-off merchant (merchant n. 3).
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 77 Top-off, a police informer. 1944L. Glassop We were Rats 133 He pooled me with the Q.M. Just a top-off merchant, that's all he is. 1966B. Collins Copper Crucible 14 About four o'clock in the morning some top-off rings the cops. 1973Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 4 Mar. 4/2 He believed him to be a prison ‘top-off’.
▪ II. ˈtop-off, a.
[f. the vbl. phr. to top off: see top v.1 19 a.]
Of a passenger: carried in a freight aircraft that would not otherwise be full.
1961Flight CXXX. 864/2 Seaboard World Airlines is continuing to press hard its proposal to carry ‘top-off’ passengers on its..cargo flights across the Atlantic. Ibid., ‘Top-off’ passengers would..afford the necessary extra revenues without interfering with the basic objective of profitable transatlantic freight services. 1962Aeroplane CIII. 5/3 Application to carry ‘top-off’ passengers on scheduled cargo flights to be rejected. |