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top coat

top coat is the alternative form of topcoat.

Meaning of topcoat

Noun

topcoat (plural topcoats)

  1. A light overcoat (outer garment).
    • Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah, and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with Astrakhan collar and cuffs.1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Story of the Bald-headed Man”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, pages 66–67
  2. A layer of paint or varnish etc. applied after the undercoat.
    • Near-synonym: overcoat
    Synonyms:
    overcoat
    Antonyms:
    undercoat, basecoat

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Forms of top coat

pluraltop coats

Questions about top coat

What is top coat the alternative form of?
Top coat is the alternative form of topcoat.

Words near top coat in the dictionary

  1. top boys
  2. top brass
  3. top brasses
  4. top cat
  5. top cats
  6. top coat
  7. top coats
  8. top copies
  9. top copy
  10. top dead center
  11. top dead centers

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