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▪ I. † top-ˈup, adv. Obs. rare.
[f. top n.1 + up adv.]
Up to the top, to the brim.
1581A. Hall Iliad iii. 52 With good wine..of Goate a ful great hide They fild top vp.
▪ II. ˈtop-up, n.
[f. the vbl. phr. to top up s.v. top v.1 21.]
An addition; that which serves to complete an amount or a number; a filling up to the top of something already partly full (esp. a glass of alcoholic drink). Freq. attrib.
1967N. Freeling Strike Out 55 Fifty children that already had their top-up shots [against polio] in February. 1968J. Lock Lady Policeman xvi. 138 Cypriots..predominated, then a fair sprinkling of Italians, with a top-up of every nationality under the sun. 1971A. Morice Death of Gay Dog vii. 85 ‘Time for a top-up.’ ‘No more, thank you.’ 1977Proc. R. Soc. Med. LXX. 160/2 Post-operative analgesia occurs for a few hours after short operations, but is otherwise much as after other methods, unless ‘top-up’ doses are given through a catheter. 1978A. C. Baines in J. M. Thomson Future of Early Music in Britain 23 The next stage should be..to..get the Associated Board to accept this instrument—but excluding the crumhorns etc. save perhaps as optional top-ups. 1983Truckin' Life Aug. 66/1 We..were looking for some improvement in consumption at the top-up point, the Ampol station. 1984Times 13 July 2/5 Moneylenders..offer ‘top-up’ loans..before the original debt has been settled. |