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Tops

adjective
1.
Of the highest quality.  Synonyms: A-one, ace, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, top-notch, topnotch.  "A crack shot" , "A first-rate golfer" , "A super party" , "Played top-notch tennis" , "An athlete in tiptop condition" , "She is absolutely tops"


Top

noun
1.
The upper part of anything.  "The title should be written at the top of the first page"
2.
The highest or uppermost side of anything.  Synonyms: top side, upper side, upside.  "Only the top side of the box was painted"
3.
The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill).  Synonyms: crest, crown, peak, summit, tip.  "They clambered to the tip of Monadnock" , "The region is a few molecules wide at the summit"
4.
The first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat.  Synonym: top of the inning.
5.
The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development.  Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, tiptop.  "The artist's gifts are at their acme" , "At the height of her career" , "The peak of perfection" , "Summer was at its peak" , "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame" , "The summit of his ambition" , "So many highest superlatives achieved by man" , "At the top of his profession"
6.
The greatest possible intensity.
7.
Platform surrounding the head of a lower mast.
8.
A conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin.  Synonyms: spinning top, teetotum, whirligig.
9.
Covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container).  Synonym: cover.  "He couldn't get the top off of the bottle" , "Put the cover back on the kettle"
10.
A garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips.
11.
A canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance.  Synonyms: big top, circus tent, round top.  "They had the big top up in less than an hour"
verb
(past & past part. topped; pres. part. topping)
1.
Be superior or better than some standard.  Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, transcend.  "She topped her performance of last year"
2.
Pass by, over, or under without making contact.  Synonym: clear.
3.
Be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point.
4.
Be ahead of others; be the first.  Synonym: lead.
5.
Provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure).  Synonym: top out.
6.
Reach or ascend the top of.
7.
Strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin.
8.
Cut the top off.  Synonym: pinch.
9.
Be the culminating event.  Synonym: crown.
10.
Finish up or conclude.  Synonym: top off.  "Top the evening with champagne"



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"Tops" Quotes from Famous Books



... by passing clouds; the cattle that had panted for water, and whose food was withered straw, were filled with juicy fodder: the camels that had subsisted upon the dried and leafless twigs and branches, now feasted upon the succulent tops of the mimosas. Throngs of women and children mounted upon camels, protected by the peculiar gaudy saddle hood, ornamented with cowrie-shells, accompanied the march; thousands of sheep and goats, driven by Arab boys, were straggling in all directions; baggage-camels, heavily laden ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... long she stood fishing for trout by my side. And when evening came, holding my hand in her own, as we passed by the little gardens of her vassals, she would point out to me the flowers that leaned their red and purple spikes along the tops of the low walls, and would teach me all their names. She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that, since I wished, some day, to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust
... that one may walk for two hours and a half without passing its limits. He felt uncertain as to just where they had entered it, the common ingress not being from Schwabing, and also uncertain as to just how far towards the centre they had penetrated. A pale, young moon peeped up above the tree-tops; he looked at the moon and then at Rosina, and they both appeared unnecessarily weak and inadequate to the urgent necessities of ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner
... round window, for his studio was high up in the building, and removed the Japanese umbrella which served as its screen. He threw himself upon a pile of cushions, regarding darkly the tops of the trees in the ...
— The Pagans • Arlo Bates
... staring at a picture he held in his hand, his face so pale that the freckles looked large and dark, his lips white as chalk, his cheeks sunken, his fingers gripping the picture, a faded and forlorn pansy in his buttonhole, and his short clipped hair standing up straight in rows like red beet tops in a vegetable garden. ...
— Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy - 1899 • George W. Peck


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