topper
Syllables: top·perUK/ˈtɒpə/US/ˈtɑpɚ/
topper noun: something that is on top. Also the ellipsis of hair topper.
Noun
topper (plural toppers)
- Something that is on top.
- Deal for network star Henry Morgan to sign a Majestic contract for two albums has fallen thru, with Paul Baron, newly-named artist and repertoire topper at the diskery, kiboshing a deal that virtually had been consummated between his predecessors and Music Corporation of America (MCA).1947 September 6, “Paul Baron Nixes 2 Morgan Albums”, in Joseph G. Csida, editor, The Billboard: The World’s Foremost Amusement Weekly, volume 59, number 35, Cincinnati, Oh.: Roger S. Littleford Jr....
- Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.1999, John Yeoman, Self Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium, page 55
- A top hat.
- When King George sat down in Perylon Hall he thrust his gray topper under the chair, just as you do when you're in the Automat.1939 June 12, “At the fair”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
- This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61
- Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
- In his latest standup set, his topper is a callback to the dog bowl story.
- A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
- She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN
- A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
- The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
- The head or chief of an organization.
- Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]1953 August 29, Billboard, page 4
- A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
- At first, in the pines, he had worked as a topper in his strong and boldest days, walking up the trees two hundred feet […]1980, Barry Targan, Kingdoms, page 24
- The only problem is that the best egg toppers, which are different from egg cutters, are an investment — the Inox professional egg topper is $55 at surlatable.com .2007 October 14, Amanda Hesser, “2000: Le Bernardin’s Croque-Monsieur”, in New York Times
- One who tops steel ingots.
- A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
- A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
- Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
- One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a "topper," dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco (page 189)
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- A fine or remarkable thing or person.
- It was a topper of a day for a Sale, although the heat would be hard on the beasts that had come a long way.1957, Allan Campbell McLean, Storm Over Skye, page 194
- A blow on the head.
- A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
- A pencil sharpener.
Proper noun capitalized: Topper
Topper (plural Toppers)
- A surname.
Also used as
topper is also the ellipsis of hair topper.
topper meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi
topper in Hindi
- टॉपर
topper in Urdu
- ٹاپ کرنے والا
topper in Malayalam
- ടോപ്പർ
topper in Punjabi
- ਟਾਪਰ
More languagesFewer languages
- topper in Gujarati
- ટોપર
- topper in Nepali
- टोपर
Examples of topper in a sentence
- Early donners of dinner-jackets, décolleté, and toppers were about Park Avenue.
- I call her the passionate topper.
- Commonly referred to as valances, toppers can add instant impact to the overall design of a room in subtle or dramatic ways.
Forms of topper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | toppers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Toppers |
Origin of topper
From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.
Words formed from topper
Phrases with topper
Words that rhyme with topper
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Questions about topper
- What does topper mean?
- Topper means something that is on top.
- What is topper in Hindi?
- Topper in Hindi is टॉपर. See Topper meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is topper?
- Topper can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce topper?
- Topper is pronounced /ˈtɒpə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of topper?
- The plural of topper is toppers.
Words near topper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: topper (page history and authors); Topper (page history and authors); topper (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topper (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topper (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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