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top-line

top-line is the alternative form of topline.

Meaning of topline

Verb

topline (third-person singular simple present toplines, present participle toplining, simple past and past participle toplined)

  1. (transitive) To bill (a performer) as the primary entertainer in a production.
    • A popular series of musical shorts he made for Mack Sennett's company in 1930 added to his success as a radio vocalist, and had made him a star by the end of 1931, when Paramount toplined him in The Big Broadcast […]1983, John Kobal, A History of Movie Musicals: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance, page 147
  2. (ambitransitive) To be billed as the primary entertainer in (a production).
    • [Whitney] Houston's success in music led her to topline the features "Waiting to Exhale," "The Preacher's Wife" and the telefilm "Cinderella."Variety https://web.archive.org/web/20120216113023/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118050123?refCatId=16
  3. (transitive) (music) To compose and/or sing the vocal part of a song (particularly pop).

See all 8 meanings of topline

Forms of top-line

third-person singular presenttop-lines
present participletop-lining
past participletop-lined
pasttop-lined

Questions about top-line

What is top-line the alternative form of?
Top-line is the alternative form of topline.

Words near top-line in the dictionary

  1. top-hole
  2. top-level
  3. top-level domain
  4. top-level domains
  5. top-levels
  6. top-line
  7. top-lined
  8. top-lines
  9. top-lining
  10. top-loading
  11. top-most

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Adapted from Wiktionary: top-line (page history and authors); topline (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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