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cherrytop

cherrytop noun: a round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car.

cherrytop: a round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car
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Noun

cherrytop (plural cherrytops)

  1. A round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car.
    • And it was less than five minutes before a black-and-white turned off Wisconsin Avenue onto P Street to investigate, its spotlight sweeping back and forth and its cherrytop spinning.1988 -, Steve Sohmer, Favorite Son, page 425
    • But we could hear it, we were happy, and we were as unprepared as we possibly could have been for the piercing white strobe and swirling red cherrytop of the police car that swooped in from nowhere and pulled up behind us.2012, Mark Winegardner, Elvis Presley Boulevard: From Sea to Shining Sea, Almost

Forms of cherrytop

pluralcherrytops
alternative formcherry top

Origin of cherrytop

From cherry + top, from the resemblance to a maraschino cherry on top of a dessert.

Words formed from cherrytop

Questions about cherrytop

What does cherrytop mean?
Cherrytop means a round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car.
What part of speech is cherrytop?
Cherrytop is a noun.
What is the plural of cherrytop?
The plural of cherrytop is cherrytops.

Words near cherrytop in the dictionary

  1. Cherrypool
  2. cherrystone
  3. cherrystones
  4. cherrytini
  5. cherrytinis
  6. cherrytop
  7. cherrytops
  8. Cherryvale
  9. Cherryville
  10. cherrywood
  11. chers

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