over-the-top

Adjective

over the top (comparative more over the top, superlative most over the top)

1. (idiomatic) Beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous.
   • I had come to regard the New Capitalism as an experiment till, in 1929, the whole thing went over the top and slid down to an utter collapse.1938, Lincoln Steffens, Granville Hicks, Carl Sandburg, The Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Volume 2, page 1007

   Synonyms:

   excessive, exaggerated, OTT, too much

2. Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.
   • The question was you don't have to hard cut the network over from proprietary to open. You can actually do it in stages and this device can lay over the top of existing proprietary networks.2004 August 18, “ARRIS Investor Conference Webcast - Final”, in Fair Disclosure Wire
3. Downward onto plants in the field, as contrasted with other routes of administration.
   • over-the-top dicamba for dicamba-tolerant crops

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