tops
UK/tɒps/US/tɑps/
tops adverb: at the very most; as a maximum. Also the plural of top.
Adverb
tops (not comparable)
Adjective
tops (not comparable)
- Great; excellent.
- This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience.1938, Motion Picture Herald, volume 132, numbers 7-13, page 61
- Everyone who has ever eaten a torte loves it. It is tops in the dessert field.1944 February 2, Katherine Kitchen, “Favorite Recipes: A Sweet Little Blitz!”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 173, number 28,188, Sacramento, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 4
Noun (1)
tops
- The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field
- Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.
Noun (2) capitalized: TOPS
TOPS (uncountable)
- Acronym of twin oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios sequence.
Proper noun capitalized: Tops
Tops
- plural of Top
Also used as
tops is also the plural of top.
tops is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of top.
tops meaning in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam
tops in Tamil
- உச்சிகள்
tops in Telugu
- టాప్స్
tops in Malayalam
- ടോപ്പുകൾ
Examples of tops in a sentence
- Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place.1958 May 5, Billboard, page 139:
- But if you feel like sitting down for an evening of *cinema* (or just wanna put something on in the background that you can make out to) sexy movies are kinda tops.2022 November 22, Katherine J Igoe, Rachel Varina, “20 Sexiest Movies of 2022 and Where You Can Stream ’Em All Yourself”, in Cosmopolitan:
Origin of tops
Likely top + -s (diminutive).
Phrases with tops
- tops up
- big tops
- hot tops
- red tops
- tops off
- tops out
- wop tops
- crop tops
- drop tops
- flat tops
- high tops
- soft tops
45 more phrasesFewer phrases
- tank tops
- tube tops
- bench tops
- black tops
- grass tops
- green tops
- house tops
- lager tops
- mizen tops
- power tops
- round tops
- screw tops
- Targa tops
- tippe tops
- tippy tops
- bikini tops
- bottle tops
- camote tops
- carrot tops
- cherry tops
- halter tops
- kamote tops
- mizzen tops
- muffin tops
- silver tops
- tops it all
- tops it off
- turnip tops
- humming tops
- peasant tops
- service tops
- strappy tops
- tops oneself
- mountain tops
- spinning tops
- Stanwell Tops
- tops and tails
- Barrington Tops
- Gloucester Tops
- tops one's boom
- tops the charts
- tops of the hour
- tops of the hours
- peekaboo tank tops
- tops from the bottom
Words that rhyme with tops
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Questions about tops
- What does tops mean?
- Tops means at the very most; as a maximum.
- What is tops in Tamil?
- Tops in Tamil is உச்சிகள். See Tops meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use tops in a sentence?
- Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place.
- What part of speech is tops?
- Tops can be an adverb, an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tops?
- Tops is pronounced /tɒps/ (UK).
Words near tops in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tops (page history and authors); TOPS (page history and authors); Tops (page history and authors); tops (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tops (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tops (Malayalam, 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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