flat-top
flat-top is the alternative form of flattop.
Meaning of flattop
Noun
flattop (plural flattops)
- A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
- Well school's not so bad but the summer's better
Gives me more time to see my girl
Walk through the park beneath the shiny moon
Oh when we kiss she makes my flat top curl1959 Jerry Keller, "Here Comes Summer" (lyrics)
- Well school's not so bad but the summer's better
- An aircraft carrier.
- A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
- Synonyms:
- folk guitar
- A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.
Forms of flat-top
| plural | flat-tops |
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Questions about flat-top
- What is flat-top the alternative form of?
- Flat-top is the alternative form of flattop.
Words near flat-top in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: flat-top (page history and authors); flattop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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