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silver tops

silver tops is the plural of silver top.

Meaning of silver top

Noun

silver top (countable and uncountable, plural silver tops)

  1. (UK) Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.
  2. (slang) An old person.
    • Still I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the senility of the present Board of Overseers, […] as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals, that your Mr. Evarts 'was too old for a senator' and that he 'was too old to change his mind.' […] I contend that these...1885, Henry Lee, “[Speech to Harvard Club of New York]”, in John T. Morse, Jr., editor, Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, pages 135–136

Questions about silver tops

What is silver tops the plural of?
Silver tops is the plural of silver top.

Words near silver tops in the dictionary

  1. silver thaws
  2. silver thistle
  3. silver tongue
  4. silver tongues
  5. silver top
  6. silver tops
  7. silver train
  8. silver trains
  9. silver tree
  10. silver trees
  11. silver trevallies

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