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toppiece

toppiece is the alternative form of top piece.

Meaning of top piece

Noun

top piece (plural top pieces)

  1. (shoemaking) The part of the heel on a shoe or boot that comes into contact with the ground.
    • Then pare the top piece to the size and form you intend it to be; but that you should always do before the heel is sewed, for now you are confined to the channel.1834, John O'Sullivan, The Art and Mystery of the Gentle Craft, page 50
  2. (US, colloquial) Something worn on the head; a hat, a wig or toupee.
    • The Mayor took himself up in the lift, quite naked of course, except for his top-piece and neckpiece with his two shopping-bags […].1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 79
  3. The head or brain.

Forms of toppiece

pluraltoppieces

Origin of toppiece

From top + piece.

Questions about toppiece

What is toppiece the alternative form of?
Toppiece is the alternative form of top piece.

Words near toppiece in the dictionary

  1. toppers
  2. toppes
  3. toppest
  4. toppest kek
  5. toppie
  6. toppiece
  7. toppieces
  8. toppies
  9. Toppin
  10. topping
  11. topping and tailing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toppiece (page history and authors); top piece (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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