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TOPS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of the highest quality
Example:
she is absolutely tops
Synonyms:
A-one; ace; crack; first-rate; super; tiptop; top-notch; topnotch; tops
Classified under:
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb top
Context examples:
JIRAM probes the weather layer down to 30 to 45 miles (50 to 70 kilometers) below Jupiter’s cloud tops.
(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)
Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Their tallest trees are about seven feet high: I mean some of those in the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my fist clenched.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The sensory cells that detect these sounds are called hair cells, named for the hair-like strands that cluster on their tops.
(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)
Over the next few hours, Voyager 2 flew within 50,600 miles (81,433 kilometers) of Uranus' cloud tops, collecting data that revealed two new rings, 11 new moons and temperatures below minus 353 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 214 degrees Celsius).
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
Many of these stems were twenty feet high, with sharp, strong tops, so that even as they stood they made formidable spears.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At sunset the tent was struck, hampers packed, wickets pulled up, boats loaded, and the whole party floated down the river, singing at the tops of their voices.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I could see the cool green tree-tops swaying together in the breeze, and I felt sure I should make the next promontory without fail.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Mucosal breaks that extend between the tops of two or more mucosal folds, but which involve less than 75% of the esophageal circumference.
(LA Grade C, NCI Thesaurus)
Also, the dog-driver rubbed Buck’s feet for half an hour each night after supper, and sacrificed the tops of his own moccasins to make four moccasins for Buck.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
