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ontop

ontop preposition: atop. Also the misspelling of on top.

Preposition

ontop

  1. (dialectal, nonstandard) atop.
    • "[…] he wen' t'row da buggah right ovah da cleef too, ontop all da res'."1980, O. A. Bushnell, Ka'A'Awa: A Novel About Hawaii in the 1850s, page 85
    • Senor Poochie at his feet, reclining like a Queen; and Nino eyeing them from ontop the table, her paws resting on an empty plate.2005, Red Jordan Arobateau, Fisherpeople., page 97

Also used as

ontop is also the misspelling of on top.

Questions about ontop

What does ontop mean?
Ontop means atop.
What part of speech is ontop?
Ontop is a preposition.

Words near ontop in the dictionary

  1. Ontonagon
  2. Ontonagon County
  3. ontonomies
  4. ontonomous
  5. ontonomy
  6. ontop
  7. ontopragmatic
  8. ONTOS
  9. ontosophy
  10. ontotheologian
  11. ontotheologians

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