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cherrytop

noun

Etymology

From cherry + top, from the resemblance to a maraschino cherry on top of a dessert.

  1. inherited from *tuppaz✻ — “braid, pigtail, end”
  2. inherited from *topp✻
  3. inherited from topp — “top, highest part; summit; crest; tassel, tuft; (spinning) top, ball; a tuft or ball at the highest point of anything”
  4. inherited from top
  5. compounded as cherrytop — “cherry + top”

Definitions

  1. A round, red light that is mounted on top of a police car.

    • And it was less than five minutes before a black-and-white turned off Wisconsin Avenue onto P Street to investigate, its spotlight sweeping back and forth and its cherrytop spinning.
    • But we could hear it, we were happy, and we were as unprepared as we possibly could have been for the piercing white strobe and swirling red cherrytop of the police car that swooped in from nowhere and pulled up behind us.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA