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tops

adv
/tɒps/UK/tɑps/US

Etymology

Likely top + -s (diminutive).

  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 tops — “top + -s”

Definitions

  1. At the very most

    At the very most; as a maximum.

    • Your essay should be two pages, tops.

  2. Great

    Great; excellent.

    • This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience.
    • Everyone who has ever eaten a torte loves it. It is tops in the dessert field.
    • Joe Issenberg, Al Kahn, A. Amato and B. B. Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place.

  3. plural of top

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. The uppermost field of a dartboard

      The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field

      • Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.

    2. third-person singular simple present indicative of top

    3. Acronym of twin oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios sequence.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tops. 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