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Topper

noun

A worker who makes or adds the top to something.

A worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.).

The person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others. Synonym: best.

An exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before.

A woman's short coat.

A man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur. Synonyms: beaver, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat.

Top

adjective

Situated at the top or highest position.

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"Topper" Quotes from Famous Books

... all. When I ride him into town, everybody turns to look at him, and Batt Horsford, the stableman, says his trot is as clean as a razor. At first I wished I'd brought my hunter instead, they made such a fuss over Champe's, and I tell you he's a regular timber-topper. ...

— The Battle Ground • Ellen Glasgow

... Mr. Green," he said to Derrick, who, indeed, looked absurdly happy and proud at that moment. "Well, you deserve it. Look here, ma'am, I could tell you a sight about this big gentleman of yours. You take it from me that he's a topper, a tip-topper. Here, just step in here, and I'll tell you how he saved the whole show from a wrecking out there in that ...

— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice

... they will seek to do with the least possible trouble. There is nothing which they do oftener than repeat words; they will seek here then to save themselves pains; they will contract two or more syllables into one; ('toto opere' will become 'topper'; 'vuestra merced', 'usted'; and 'topside the other way', 'topsy-turvey'{230}); they will slur over, and thus after a while cease to pronounce, certain letters; for hard letters they will substitute soft; for those which require a certain effort to pronounce, they will substitute those which ...

— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench

... many inscrutable cards in my time," the solicitor of Gray's Inn observed to his elder brother, in the course of fraternal converse; "but I think for inscrutability you put the topper on the lot. What do you expect to get out of this Haygarth estate? Come, Phil, let us have your figures in plain English. I am to have a fifth—that's all signed and sealed. But how about your share? What agreement have you got ...

— Charlotte's Inheritance • M. E. Braddon

... it no good," gloomily replied Billy. "'Twould jest make it yeller 'n what 'tis now. Won't I be a pretty sight when I puts on long pants with these here yaller curls stuck on topper my head? I'd 'nuther ...

— Miss Minerva and William Green Hill • Frances Boyd Calhoun

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