topless

From top +‎ -less.

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topless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a top.

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

2. (poetic) Very high, towering.
   • late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:

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

     And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

3. (chiefly of a woman) 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. (of a place) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
   • 1975, Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up in Blue"

     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.

   Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.

• bare-breasted (of a woman)
• barechested (of a man)
• half-naked
• semi-nude
• shirtless (of a man)
• topfree

• toplessly
• toplessness

topless (not comparable)

1. Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
   • 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:

     'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'

topless (plural toplesses)

1. (automotive) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

• bottomless
• monokini
• toplessness

• Postels, potless

Borrowed from English topless.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔp.ləs/

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• Hyphenation: top‧less

topless (not comparable)

1. topless (lacking clothes on the upper part of the body)

Borrowed from English topless.

topless m (invariable)

1. The state of being topless
2. A monokini or similar

• in topless

Borrowed from English topless.

topless (invariable, comparable)

1. (of a woman) topless (naked from the waist up)

• toples

Borrowed from English topless.

topless (invariable)

1. topless (of a woman, naked from the waist up)