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woodentop

woodentop is the alternative form of wooden-top.

Meaning of wooden-top

Noun

wooden-top (plural wooden-tops)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, informal) A uniformed police officer.
    • Immediately a big wooden-top came in. He was young and blond.1988, Derek Raymond, The Devil's Home on Leave, Ballantine Books, page 151
    Synonyms:
    police officer

Forms of woodentop

pluralwoodentops

Questions about woodentop

What is woodentop the alternative form of?
Woodentop is the alternative form of wooden-top.

Words near woodentop in the dictionary

  1. woodenish
  2. woodenly
  3. woodenness
  4. woodennesses
  5. Woodens
  6. woodentop
  7. woodentops
  8. woodenware
  9. woodenwares
  10. woodeny
  11. wooder

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woodentop (page history and authors); wooden-top (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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