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Top out   /tɑp aʊt/   Listen
Top out

verb
1.
Give up one's career just as one becomes very successful.
2.
Provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure).  Synonym: top.
3.
To reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity.  Synonym: peak.  "Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"





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"Top out" Quotes from Famous Books



... or it will settle unevenly, and the stack will lean to one side accordingly. 4. Increase the diameter from the ground upward until ready to draw in or narrow to form the top. 5. Aim to form the top by gradual rather than abrupt narrowing. 6. Top out by using some other kind of hay or grass that sheds the rain better than clover. 7. Suspend weights to some kind of ropes, stretching over the top of the stack to prevent the wind from removing the material put on to protect the clover ...
— Clovers and How to Grow Them • Thomas Shaw
... tinged with gold. In the air was a touch of frost, and a smoky mist-drift clung here and there above the reeds, blurring the shores of the lagoon so that we seemed to be steaming across boundless water, till some clump of trees would fling its top out of the fog, then ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... whooped and howled for perhaps three minutes. Then it died down, as if giving up the attempt to tear the boat's top out of the hands of ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren
... move, Irina Sergeyevna! [Takes a photograph] You look well to-day. [Takes a humming-top out of his pocket] Here's a humming-top, by the way. ...
— Plays by Chekhov, Second Series • Anton Chekhov


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