Definition of top top in English English dictionary
- Top 40
- Popular music, usually the 40 most popular songs at a given time
- Top 40
- Relating to or playing popular music
I was listening to a Top 40 radio station.
- anti-top quark
- the antiquark corresponding to the top quark
- anti-top quarks
- plural form of anti-top quark
- at the top of one's lungs
- Very loudly; as loudly as (vocally) possible
He started screaming at the top of his lungs after his team scored.
- big top
- The circus; the circus lifestyle
He had been a big top performer in his youth, but in a twist of fate he had run away to become an investment banker.
- big top
- A circus tent, especially the largest in a given circus, where the central attractions take place
As a trapeze performer, she generally worked in the big top, but due to her injury, she was stuck working concession.
- blow one's top
- to be explosively angry. To lose one's temper
When my dad found out I had failed the exams, he just blew his top.
- bottle top
- a bottle cap
- carrot top
- A person with red hair; a redhead
- crop top
- A short T-shirt or blouse that is cut off above the abdomen
- drop top
- A convertible car, the roof of which can be folded down to form an open-top vehicle
- generic top-level domain
- Any of the top-level domains assigned by the IANA based on type of organization
com, .gov and .edu are all generic top-level domains.
- gold top
- Channel Island milk
- gold-top milk
- Channel Island milk
- green top
- unpasteurised full cream milk, having a green top to the bottle
- halter top
- A style of sleeveless top with a single strap around the back of the neck
this full-coverage halter top has thick straps to prevent sags.
- humming top
- A toy with a point, around which it can be made to spin
- humming-top
- Alternative spelling of humming top
A humming-top? What a good idea! She will love to watch it go waltzing and singing down the sky.....
- muffin top
- The roll of fat that overflows out of the top of low-cut or too-tight jeans
- off the top of one's head
- Without great thought or investigation; extemporaneous; natural; offhand
I cannot think of any good examples off the top of my head, but give me a couple of hours and I'm sure I could come up with something.
- on top
- In a dominant position
At the end of the season, Manchester United came out on top.
- on top of
- Atop
- on top of
- In addition to something else
. . and on top of all that, I got a puncture!.
- on top of
- Fully informed about, and in control of something; up to speed with
I have sorted out the problems and am now on top of the situation.
- on top of the world
- Delighted; ecstatic; exceptionally pleased, happy, or satisfied
He was on top of the world after she agreed to marry him.
- out-top
- have a top higher than
- over the top
- Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack
The men were sent over the top to their certain death.
- over the top
- Bold; beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; outrageous
Myers went over the top in the clubhouse, berating a reporter who questioned Myers' terminology.
- over-the-top
- Alternative spelling of over the top
- pretty please with sugar on top
- Exaggerated form of please or pretty please
I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top. Clean the fucking car., said by The Wolf.
- red top
- a tabloid newspaper, particularly those considered to be of a lower standard than the broadsheets
Just as broadsheets only exceptionally outsell any of the tabloids, so middle-market tabloids - the Mail and Express - only rarely outsell the red tops (although the upmarket Sunday Times outsells the mid-market Express on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday outsells The People).
- red-top
- a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom
- roll-top
- having a top that rolls away when not needed
- roll-top desk
- A desk having a flexible top, made of parallel slats, that rolls away when not needed
- roll-top desks
- plural form of roll-top desk
- round-top
- A platform at the top of a ship's mast
A man on the roundtop cried out, Au voile, a sail.
- run like a top
- To operate flawlessly and smoothly
I've just tuned my car, and now it's running like a top.
- screw top
- Alternative name of screw cap
- screw-top
- A top that can be opened and closed by screwing
- set top box
- A device that converts an incoming signal into a format displayable by a television
- set-top box
- a device that connects some source of signal to a television set, often decrypting a digitally encrypted signal from a communications satellite or cable network
- set-top boxes
- plural form of set-top box
- silver top
- full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle
- snow on the mountain top
- Alternative spelling of snow on the mountaintop
- snow on the roof top
- Alternative spelling of snow on the rooftop
- soft top
- A car with such a roof
- soft top
- The foldable roof of a convertible or sports car which is made of fabric
- spinning top
- A toy with a tapering point that can be made to spin on its axis, either with a built-in pump-action handle, with the fingers or with a string
- strappy top
- An item of women's clothing with thin straps over the shoulders
The dress code at our college specifically bans strappy tops.
- tank top
- The top of a ship's bilge tank, usually the lowest horizontal surface on board
- tank top
- An item of casual clothing: a top with no sleeves
The service makes available, during limited weekend hours, a handful of the company's items – cargo shorts, tank tops, and the like – to the Hamptons house guest who discovers that he can't make it to Monday without purchasing one of those weird madras patchwork blazers.
- tip-top
- Alternative spelling of tiptop
- tip-top
- Excellent
- top
- best
- top
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) That part of an object furthest away in the opposite direction from that in which an unsupported object would fall
His kite got caught at the top of the tree.
- top
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay
- top
- To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex
- top
- To cover on the top or with a top
- top
- The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats
- top
- Rated first
She came top in her French exam.
- top
- The part viewed, or intended to be viewed, nearest the edge of the visual field normally occupied by the uppermost visible objects
Headings appear at the tops of pages. Or, Further weather information can be found at the top of your television screen.
- top
- A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top
- top
- A top quark
- top
- A lid, cap or cover of a container
- top
- A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay
- top
- To excel, to beat
- top
- To kill, murder
- top
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached
- top
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- top
- A garment worn to cover the torso
- top
- A gay man who likes take an active sexual role rather than a passive role (e.g. to penetrate in anal sex rather than be penetrated)
- top antiquark
- The antiparticle of the top quark
- top banana
- The boss, the leader
Only the top banana can make a decision of that magnitude.
- top banana
- The principal comedian in a vaudeville or burlesque show
He was hilarious, and remained the top banana on the tour for years.
- top bananas
- plural form of top banana
- top brass
- A group of people who are the leaders or heads of an organization
- top copy
- the typescript of a document that has carbon copies underneath
- top dead center
- A position in the four-stroke combustion process wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. This can either be during the compression phase or the combustion phase
- top dead center
- The reference mark on a flywheel (and engine block) indicating the engine is in the top dead center position, when aligned
- top deck
- the upper deck of a double-decker bus
- top dog
- the boss, the leader (of the pack)
- top dog
- in a competition, the one expected to win
- top dogs
- plural form of top dog
- top dollar
- The maximum amount of money that an item, service, or worker is worth; a very high price
Consumers are willing to pay top dollar for distinctive, rare, traditional cheeses.
- top dollars
- plural form of top dollar
- top drawer
- Of the highest quality
Top drawer, I said.
- top edge
- To hit the ball with the top edge of the bat
- top edge
- The edge of a bat farthest from the ground
- top edge
- A deflection of a ball off of the top edge of a bat, into the air and potentially for a catch
- top edged
- Simple past tense and past participle of top edge
- top edges
- plural form of top edge
- top edges
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of top edge
- top edging
- Present participle of top edge
- top fruit
- A fruit which grows on trees, contrasted with soft fruit
- top fruits
- plural form of top fruit
- top gear
- The highest gear that is available in a motor vehicle or car
- top gun
- A most highly rated gun shooter
- top gun
- Someone most highly rated
- top guns
- plural form of top gun
- top hand
- The batsman's hand that is further up the handle; used for control rather than power
- top hands
- plural form of top hand
- top hat
- A man's formal hat, with a tall cylindrical crown (often of silk)
- top hats
- plural form of top hat
- top it off
- To emphasize or underscore; to make something even better or worse
The boss fired Fred and, to top it all off, he asked security to escort him to the door.
- top kill
- a method of closing an oil well, by pumping in drilling fluid (synthetic mud) to shut off the flow of oil, and following with concrete (cement) to plug the hole
- top line
- Total sales or revenue
- top line
- a flag on the edge of a minefield
- top notch
- Very good; of the highest quality
The award may be given to anybody who consistently writes top notch content.
- top of mind awareness
- The percent of respondents who, without prompting, name a specific brand or product first when asked to list all the advertisements they recall seeing in a general product category over the past 30 days
Companies that are well known advertise heavily and have attention-getting ads that tend to receive the highest top of mind awareness scores in ad tracking studies.
- top of mind awarenesses
- plural form of top of mind awareness
- top of the hour
- The time at (or very close to) the start of the next hour of time
We'll have a news update at the top of the hour.
- top of the line
- The best, fanciest, or highest quality, especially among selections in a product line
When you buy a top-of-the-line refrigerator, you expect it to work for many years.
- top of the morning
- A generic greeting said to someone in the morning
- top of the shop
- ninety
- top off
- to fill completely; to fill or refill the final portion of something not empty
The waitress topped off my coffee every few minutes.
- top oneself
- To outdo oneself or do more than one's previous best
- top oneself
- To commit suicide
- top oneself
- To overdose
- top order
- the batsmen who bat in the first few positions
- top priority
- Item of highest importance
- top priority
- Of the highest level of importance
- top priority
- To be done before doing anything else
- top priority
- Relatively highest importance
- top quark
- A quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass about 178,000 MeV. Symbol: t
- top quarks
- plural form of top quark
- top scorer
- The person who scores more than any other in a specified situation
- top secret
- A level of security clearance needed to access such information
- top secret
- Pertaining to any especially sensitive closed-room activities
Steve Jobs set up a top secret team to design the Macintosh.
- top secret
- Information classified at the highest level of sensitivity by a government, based on an assessment that it would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed
NSA's report on the Liberty incident was originally classified top secret.
- top sheet
- A bed sheet used between a bottom sheet and a blanket
- top shelf
- books, magazines, or movies that have adult content, or soft-core porn
Jim has a lot of top shelf magazines.
- top shelf
- best, or high quality
- top tier
- Belonging to the [[#Noun|top tier]]: elite, prestigious
- top tier
- Top level, top rank, top standing
- top tier
- Elite
- top tiers
- plural form of top tier
- top totty
- A very attractive woman or women, or (more recently) a man or men
- top up
- to fill something
I shall top up with petrol before the long trip.
- top up
- to extend the credit of something
I shall top up the mobile phone at the supermarket.
- top-dimensional
- Having the same dimension as the ambient topological space
- top-down
- of, or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits
- top-drawer
- Alternative spelling of top drawer
- top-dress
- To cover a surface with loose material; especially to cover newly-sown seeds with a light dressing of soil or fertilizer
- top-fermenting
- Pertaining to any of numerous edible yeasts that produce, e.g., ale, and whose respective fermenting actions appear to be at the top surface of the wort
- top-flight
- In the highest division
- top-flight
- Of the highest rank, or peak of excellence
- top-gun
- Attributive form of top gun
top-gun shooter.
- top-heavy
- having an excessive number of administrators or managers
- top-heavy
- having a high centre of gravity, and liable to topple
- top-level
- Primary; a web page that directly accessible by typing its name, not followed by any additional information
- top-level
- Highest
- top-level
- Best
- top-level domain
- The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or any of the ccTLDs. Abbreviated TLD
- top-level domains
- plural form of top-level domain
- top-notch
- Of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate
- top-of-mind awareness
- Alternative spelling of top of mind awareness
- top-of-mind awarenesses
- plural form of top-of-mind awareness (alternative spelling of top of mind awarenesses)
- top-post
- To post (a reply to a message) above the quoted original message (generally regarded as poor netiquette)
- top-post
- To make a top-post
- top-post
- A top-posted message
- top-post
- An act of top-posting
- top-spinner
- a type of ball, bowled by a leg spin bowler, that spins forward and, when bouncing off the pitch, bounces higher than expected and slows down
- top-tier
- Alternative spelling of top tier
- tube top
- A one-piece strapless tube-shaped top worn by women, leaving shoulders and belly-button exposed
- up top
- A request accompanied by an open palm gesture to do a high five
- wooden-top
- uniformed police officers
It is Detective Chief Superintendent Cohn Harpur, one of the bosses, but just a wooden-top like all the rest.
- top
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; "A star tops the Christmas Tree
- top
- provide with a top; "the towers were topped with conical roofs"
- top
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips; "he stared as she buttoned her top" covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container); "he removed the top of the carton"; "he couldn't get the top off of the bottle"; "put the cover back on the kettle" a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday" platform surrounding the head of a lower mast the greatest possible intensity; "he screamed at the top of his lungs" the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted" the upper part of anything; "the mower cuts off the tops of the grass"; "the title should be written at the top of the first page" the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat; "a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth" finish up or conclude; "They topped off their dinner with a cognac"; "top the evening with champagne" cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin reach or ascend the top of; "The hikers topped the mountain just before noon" provide with a top; "the towers were topped with conical roofs" be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point; "A star tops the Christmas Tree
- flat top ride
- (Kahve) A flat ride cymbal or flat top ride (or often just flat ride) is a ride cymbal without a bell
- top
- {v} to excel, cover, crop, snuff, rise up, tip
- top
- {n} the highest part, a pinnacle, surface, toy
- boot top
- (Denizcilik) Boot stripe or boot top is a painted stripe along the waterline delineating the topside from the bottom paint
- open-top
- (also open-topped) (of a vehicle) not having a roof or having a folding or detachable roof
- over the top
- Exceeding the normal bounds; immoderate; extravagant: “The hotel pours it on. You're in for an over-the-top experience” (Travel & Leisure)
- top down approach
- breaking down a system to gain insight into its compositional sub-systems
- top of the morning
- Good morning! Have a good morning!
- top up
- An additional or extra amount or portion that restores something to a former level
- top-down
- (Finans) An investment strategy which first finds the best sectors or industries to invest in, and then searches for the best companies within those sectors or industries. This investing strategy begins with a look at the overall economic picture and then narrows it down to sectors, industries and companies that are expected to perform well. Analysis of the fundamentals of a given security is the final step
- top-scorer
- (Spor) A person who achieves the greatest score
- top-tier
- The best and most oftenly picked character in a game. This character is more times than not the strongest and usually is chosen the most in tournament/high levels of play. Synonymous with low risk high reward
