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[ tops ] / tɒps / Informal.SEE SYNONYMS FOR tops ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveranked among the highest, as in ability, performance, comprehensiveness, or quality: His work is tops. That car is tops. adverbat a maximum; at most: It'll take an hour, tops. I'll give you $25 for that, tops. nounthe tops. top1 (def. 22). Origin of topsFirst recorded in 1930–35; plural of top1 Words nearby topstopping lift, topple, top quark, toprail, top round, tops, topsail, topsail schooner, topscore, top-secret, top sergeant Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for topsA former minister of energy, Yuriy Boiko, tops the Opposition Bloc's list for Sunday elections. Ukraine’s Elections: The Battle of the Billionaires|Anna Nemtsova|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Then, the sexual revolution exploded and women left their tops in the sand altogether. Is the Facekini the Future of Beachwear?|Justin Jones|August 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST It also, as it happens, is a great movie, with a 79 Metacritic score that tops every other blockbuster released this summer. Is the Summer Blockbuster Dead?|Kevin Fallon|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST He tops the concoction with a shot of bourbon and delicately spoons in a couple ice cubes. The Rise and Fall…and Rise Again of the Old-Fashioned|Allison McNearney|June 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Texas now tops New York in population, and Florida should be there by 2020. Why New York—and Bill de Blasio—May Haunt Hillary Clinton in a 2016 Campaign|Lloyd Green|June 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST But it was absolutely necessary, for there was no other plan by which I could tunnel through the tops of the boxes. This is a long arm of the sea, surrounded by high, bold mountains, clothed with very green verdure to their tops. On an Irish Jaunting-car|Samuel G. Bayne Cope′-stone, Cop′ing-stone, the stone which copes or tops a wall; Cop′ing, the covering course of masonry of a wall. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various I crossed the tops of the two houses between and went down the fire escape. The Old Die Rich|Horace Leonard Gold Many of the pines on this ridge were two feet in diameter, and a hundred feet high, with small clusters of limbs around the tops. Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume 28|Various
British Dictionary definitions for tops
nouna person or thing of top quality adjective(postpositive) excellent; superb Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to topslid, head, point, tip, cap, cover, ceiling, roof, face, surface, height, peak, best, climb, finish, beat, exceed, total, eclipse, outstrip |