topper

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Something that is on top.
A top hat.
Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
The head or chief of an organization.
A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
One who tops steel ingots.
A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
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.

name

/ˈtɒpə/ /ˈtɑpɚ/ /ˈtɔpə/ En-au-topper.ogg

topper toppers

From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.

tip-topper top off topping

bell-topper be-toppered chart-topper cherry topper egg topper hair topper mattress topper open-topper pencil topper toppered topper-offer tree topper

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