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topless

adj

Etymology

From top + -less.

  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. formed as topless — “top + -less”

Definitions

  1. Lacking a top.

    • The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.

  2. Very high

    Very high; towering.

    • Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

  3. Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body

    Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.

    • The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.

      • Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.
      • Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone
      • She was workin' in a topless place / And I stopped in for beer / I just kept lookin' at the side of her face / In the spotlight so clear.

    2. Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.

      • 'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'
      • Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.

    3. A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for topless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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