topper
IPA: tˈɑpɝ
noun
- Something that is on top.
- A top hat.
- Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
- (chiefly US) 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.
- (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
- (colloquial) 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.
- (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.
- (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
- (dated, slang) A blow on the head.
- A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
- (Ireland) A pencil sharpener.
- A surname.
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Examples of "topper" in Sentences
- And the topper is Democrats saying they'll vote for McCain if Hillary doesn't get the nod.
- "No!" shouted the other; and with a make believe of fierceness, Jack gave each what he called a topper on the head with one of the kiris he held.
- Forget that's a drop in the bucket of our foreign aid, or that the Republicans would stonewall any reallocation of money to unemployment or the welfare system: The topper is that this was actually an initiative of the George W. Bush Administration as part of its anti-AIDS campaign, one of the few decent things that ol 'W did.
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