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topper

see also: Topper

Pronunciation

Noun

topper (plural toppers)

Something that is on top.
- 1999, John Yeoman, Self Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium (page 55)
  Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.
A top hat.
Something for cutting off the top of something.
Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
(colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.
- 1953, August 29, Billboard (page 4)
  Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]
(dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
One who tops steel ingots.
(chiefly, US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:
  She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
(India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
(dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.

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Topper

Proper noun

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