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tiptoppers

tiptoppers is the plural of tiptopper.

Meaning of tiptopper

Noun

tiptopper (plural tiptoppers)

  1. (slang) An upper-class person or aristocrat.
    • […] tiptoppers like a bit of fun as well as anybody else: it can't all be state concerts at Buckingham Palace. I don't know whether they still have midnight tobogganing on tea-trays down the stair- cases of country houses […]1893, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 87, page 367

Questions about tiptoppers

What is tiptoppers the plural of?
Tiptoppers is the plural of tiptopper.

Words near tiptoppers in the dictionary

  1. Tipton St John
  2. Tiptonville
  3. tiptop
  4. tiptopite
  5. tiptopper
  6. tiptoppers
  7. tiptops
  8. Tiptree
  9. tiptrode
  10. tiptrodes
  11. tipu

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