Meaning

Something that is on top..

Definitions by Sense

1. Something that is on top.
2. A top hat.
3. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
4. (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
6. (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
7. (colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.
8. A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.

Example Sentences

Deal for network star Henry Morgan to sign a Majestic contract for two albums has fallen thru, with Paul Baron, newly-named artist and repertoire topper at the diskery, kiboshing a deal that virtually had been consummated between his predecessors and Music Corporation of America (MCA).

Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.

UK act the Prodigy will headline the Boiler Room, with chart toppers the Ting Tings playing at 2.15pm on the green stage.

When King George sat down in Perylon Hall he thrust his gray topper under the chair, just as you do when you're in the Automat.

This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.

In his latest standup set, his topper is a callback to the dog bowl story.

She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.

Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]

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