toppers

Noun

topper (plural toppers)

1. 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....
2. 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
3. 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.
4. (US) 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
5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
6. (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.

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