topper

From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top +‎ -er.

• (RP) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒ.pə/
• (AusE) IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pə/
• (GenAm) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑ.pɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(r)

man wearing a topper

topper (plural toppers)

1. Something that is on top.
   • 2009 January 26, Cameron Adams, “Sniffer dogs have their Big Day Out”, in Herald Sun‎:

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

   • 1999, John Yeoman, Self Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium (page 55)

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

2. A top hat.
3. Something for cutting off the top of something.
   • 2007 October 14, Amanda Hesser, “2000: Le Bernardin’s Croque-Monsieur”, in New York Times‎:

     The only problem is that the best egg toppers, which are different from egg cutters, are an investment — the Inox professional egg topper is $55 at surlatable.com .

4. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
5. A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
6. Head, chief.
7. (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
8. One who tops steel ingots.
9. (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
   • a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces:

     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.

10. A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
11. (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
12. (dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
13. A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.

• top off
• topper-offer
• topping

From top +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.pər/
• Hyphenation: top‧per
• Rhymes: -ɔpər

topper m (plural toppers)

1. Someone or something excellent; a belter, a ripper.

topper m

1. indefinite plural of topp