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rooftopper

rooftopper noun: a person who takes selfies or videos with expansive and vertiginous urban views and cityscapes, usually, but not always, from locations restricted to the public.

Noun

rooftopper (plural rooftoppers)

  1. (slang) A person who takes selfies or videos with expansive and vertiginous urban views and cityscapes, usually, but not always, from locations restricted to the public.
    • Soon after, I got a message from a rooftopper in New York City telling me that the whole scene there was on lockdown after two German artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke, put white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge and that the FBI were dragging urban explorers in for questioning. […] It is...2015 February 17, Bradley L Garrett, “Meet the rooftoppers: the urban outlaws who risk everything to summit our cities”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2020
    Synonyms:
    builderer, roofer

Synonyms of rooftopper

Forms of rooftopper

pluralrooftoppers

Origin of rooftopper

From rooftop + -er.

Questions about rooftopper

What does rooftopper mean?
Rooftopper means a person who takes selfies or videos with expansive and vertiginous urban views and cityscapes, usually, but not always, from locations restricted to the public.
What part of speech is rooftopper?
Rooftopper is a noun.
What is the plural of rooftopper?
The plural of rooftopper is rooftoppers.

Words near rooftopper in the dictionary

  1. roofstones
  2. rooftile
  3. rooftiles
  4. rooftop
  5. Rooftop of the World
  6. rooftopper
  7. rooftoppers
  8. rooftopping
  9. rooftops
  10. rooftree
  11. rooftrees

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