Tops

Definition: Tops

Tops

Adjective

1. (informal) of the highest quality; "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tops" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Industry

Dream Interpretation

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

TOPS

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Tops

Crosswords: Tops

Nine-thirty, tops. (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

Miss Kubelik, one doesn't get to be a second administrative assistant around here unless he's a pretty good judge of character, and as far as I'm concerned you're tops. I mean, decency-wise and otherwise-wise (The Apartment; writing credit: Billy Wilder ; I.A.L. Diamond)

My roommate is from Canada, so we told him that American girls really like it when guys wear mesh tank tops and quote Billy Joel (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

15 minutes tops. (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois)

That tops the lease in your pocket (The Goodbye Girl; writing credit: Neil Simon)

As a matter of opinion I think he's tops ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells)

He rocks in the tree tops all day long (Rockin' Robin; performing artist: Michael Jackson)

Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? (references; author: unknown)

Tops (1969)

Cops Is Tops (1955)

Tops in the Big Top (1945)

The Duke Is Tops (1938)

Roof Tops of Manhattan (1935)

Cry Like A Baby (performing artist: The Box Tops)

The Letter (performing artist: The Box Tops)

Bernadette (performing artist: The Four Tops)

I Can't Help Myself (performing artist: The Four Tops)

It's The Same Old Song (performing artist: The Four Tops)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Wool and Other Animal Hair Excluding Wool Tops in Argentina (reference)

• Tops Appliance City Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Tops Estates Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Textile Fibers and Their Wastes Excluding Wool Tops in Africa (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Women’s Outerwear Formal Tops (reference)

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Books

• Easy Guide to Sewing Tops & T-Shirts (Sewing Companion Library) (reference)

• Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book, 1996, No 4) (reference)

• Tops and Bottoms (reference)

• Volcanoes: Mountains That Blow Their Tops (All Aboard Reading-Level 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Tops (reference)

• White Tops (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Hi De Ho/Duke Is Tops (reference)

• The Four Tops - Live at the MGM Grand (reference)

• Duke Is Tops (reference)

• The Duke is Tops (reference)

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Music

• Tops of Trees Are on Fire (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Soundtube Surefit Headset Tops Ear Hook (reference)

• Tops Time Cards, Job Card Form, 1-Sided, 9in. x 3 1/2in., Box Of 500 (reference)

• Tops Time Cards, Named Days, 2-Sided, Pack Of 250 (reference)

• Tops Time Cards, Numbered Days, 1-Sided, 9in. x 3 1/2in., Box Of 500 (reference)

• Gn Omega Noise Canceling Monaural Headset Tops (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Sunset with tops of lighted buoys silhouetted during Gulf Stream eddy studies. Credit: Fisheries.

Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Double-crested cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus. These birds often take advantage of the tops of pilings for resting places. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

TIROS IV lifting off the pad. Launched by 3-stage Thor Delta rocket #317 the satellite was equipped with two television cameras for photographing cloud cover and with infrared sensors to make measurements of the earth's surface, atmosphere, and cloud tops. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Infrared imagery of cloud top temperatures over Kansas and Oklahoma. Red indicates coldest temperatures which are associated with highest cloud tops and most intense convection and precipitation. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Air Force Tops in Blue.

The U.S. Air Force Tops in Blue perform at the NFL Players Huddle Party at MacDill AFB, Fla., Jan. 23, 2001. People and aircraft from various bases around the nation to include a Charleston based C-17 "Globemaster" and the Thunderbird Aerodynami.

Stanley Pope tops tobacco plants on a farm in the Danville, Va. area. Credit: USDA.

Detail view of tops of upstream arch barrels. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, Summer 1971. (Reproduction Number: HAER, UTAH,18-SALCI,22-5) The development of the multiple-arch reinforced concrete dam by engineer John S. Eastwood took advantage of the inherent characteristics of an ancient building form to greatly reduce the needed mass of dams. Inclined, reinforced concrete barrel vaults transfer the weight of the impounded water to the ground through a series of buttresses. The downward pressure actually increases the stability of the dam by pressing it against its foundation, making it an ideal design for poor foundation conditions. Eastwood built similar dams throughout the world. Credit: Library of Congress.

Off Amoy, China, on 21 October 1938. Photographed from USS Pillsbury (DD-227). Note: Crew on deck; Flared funnel tops; Kawanishi E17K and Nakajima E8N floatplanes on the aircraft deck. Credit: NAVY.

View looking forward from the ship's port bridge wing, 1908. Note the 12"/45 gun turret with grating hatches open; also winch and capstans, with decorated tops on the latter. An old fortification is in the left distance. Photographed by Enrique Muller. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A brisk north wind was blowing, which swayed the tops of the plane trees

The water would rise inch by inch, covering the grass and shrubs, covering the trees and houses, covering the monuments and the mountain tops.

Then over the tops they tied canvas to keep them from slopping the water out.

The garret windows and tops of houses were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had not seen a more populous place

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Health

Suction cups for plates, special tableware designed for people with disabilities, and plastic cups with tops can help prevent spilling. (references)

Sinsemilla (made from just the buds and flowering tops of female plants) has an average of 7.5 percent THC, with a range as high as 24 percent. (references)

Wearing long-sleeved shirts and tucking pants into socks or boot tops may help keep ticks from reaching the skin. Ticks are usually located close to the ground, so wearing high rubber boots may provide additional protection. (references)

Business

Sweden tops the list of donor countries with 40 percent of the total, followed by Finland with 30 percent. (references)

Norway tops the cruise statistics in the four Nordic countries, with over half of the 40,000 cruise passengers. (references)

Asymmetric necklines, three-quarter length sleeves, fitted shirts as a jacket; puffed sleeves, drawstring tops as layering pieces, tube tops, funnel necks, and the layering of sheer cotton T-shirts, tunics. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

Specifically they include sweaters and pullovers, swimwear, dresses, suits, ensembles, overcoats, anoraks, silk ties, shirts and blouses, T-shirts, tank tops, trousers, and shorts. (references)

Haiti

Countrywide, child nutrition rates are dropping from 32% in 1995 to 22% in 2000, and full child immunization rates continue to rise, doubling in USAID-served areas from 30% in 1994 to about 60% in 2000. Contraceptive use, limited to 13% of women in 1994, now tops 25% in USAID project areas (half the country). (references)

Thailand

That said, U.S. products are very well received and widely promoted in nearly all types of retail outlets listed herein . For example, supermarkets such as Villa and Tops run frequent US Food promotions . Provincial Thai department stores are lobbying for measures to control the expansion of the hypermarkets which are hugely successful . As a result of stiff competition, the number of "mom and pop" variety stores is declining in Thailand . (references)

Trade

Ukraine

Despite these improvements, taxation tops the list of investment barriers in Ukraine. (references)

Kenya

Japan tops the list of bilateral donors followed by Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. (references)

Travel

Uzbekistan

In Tashkent it is acceptable to wear short skirts, tops with bared shoulders, and pants. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Beginning with "tops": TOPS-10, TOPS-20, Tops-and-bottoms.

Ending with "tops": cliff-tops, hill-tops, mountain-tops, roof-tops, table-tops, tree-tops.

Albanian

i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pleasant, pukka, salable, virtuous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

най-способен, най-качествен (extra special), най-известен, най-добър (best, only, optimum, picked, topflight). (various references)

Chinese 

顶面 (top). (various references)

Danish

tops. (various references)

Dutch

tops, kamband (sliver). (various references)

Finnish

naatit. (various references)

French

tops, ruban de préparation, les dessus (top coal), Extrémités, bancs au toit (top coal), banc supérieur (top bench, top coal, top layer). (various references)

German

Tops, Spitzen (cuspids, keep a look-out, peaks, peek, pinnacles, point, points, prick up, pucker, purse, sharpen, spires), Spinnband (sliver), Oberteile, Oberbank (top bench, top coal, top layer), kraut (cabbage, foliage, grass, herb, herbage, plant, sauerkraut, tobacco), Kammzug. (various references)

Greek 

tops, έξοχοσ (Dandy, eminent, excellent, fine, high, peachy, splendid, splendiferous, sterling, super, swell, worthy), υπερκείμενα στρώματα (roof beds, roof strata, top coal), άριστοσ (best, optimal, topnotch), ταινίες προπαρασκευής. (various references)

Hungarian

elsőrendű szakember (he tops at his trade). (various references)

Italian

tops, nastro di preparazione (sliver). (various references)

Korean 

정상 (Normal, top). (various references)

Manx

bir (roasting spits). (various references)

Pig Latin

opstay.(various references)

Portuguese

suculento (fleshy, juicy, luscious, lush, pappy, pulpy, sappy, succulent, tender), que tem sumo, fita de preparação (sliver), com substância (juicy), com interesse, úmido (clammy, damp, dewy, dripping, humid, juicy, madid, moist, soft, squashy, watery, weeping, wet), "tops". (various references)

Russian 

прекрасный (beauteous, beautiful, fine, gallant, glorious, jim-dandy, nailing, noble, prize). (various references)

Scottish

barbrag (tangle tops). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prvoklasan (brag, champion, excellent, first chop, first class, first rate, luxe: de luxe, prime, tip top, top flight, top notch, topgallant). (various references)

Spanish

tops, cinta de preparación (sliver). (various references)

Swedish

överst (at the top, atop, topmost, uppermost). (various references)

Turkish

en iyi (best, champion, of the first water, tiptop, top, top drawer, topflight, top-hole, topnotch), birinci sınıf (banner class, best, classic, commanding, first chop, first class, first rate, hunky-dory, in style, jammy, of the first water, pucka, pukka, slap up, super, tiptop, top drawer, topflight, topping, wire-wove). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "tops": topsail, topsails, topside, topsider, topsiders, topsides, topsoil, topsoiled, topsoiling, topsoils, topspin, topspins, topstitch, topstitched, topstitches, topstitching, topstone, topstones. (additional references)

Words ending with "tops": anviltops, backstops, blacktops, carrottops, cooktops, countertops, desktops, doorstops, estops, flattops, foretops, hardtops, helistops, hilltops, housetops, laptops, maintops, misstops, mountaintops, netops, overtops, ragtops, redtops, ripstops, rooftops, shortstops, stops, tabletops, tiptops, treetops, triceratops, unstops. (additional references)

Words containing "tops": autopsic, autopsied, autopsies, autopsy, autopsying, ceratopsian, ceratopsians, triceratopses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tops" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atops, tapz, tepz, tipss, tipz, tobs, tocs, tods, tois, tojs, toks, toop, toops, topa, topas, topf, topis, topl, topo, topos, Toposa, toppy, Topr, Topsey, Topsi, topsy, topt, topz, tors, tosa, toso, tous, trops, trosp, tupes, tups. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: opts, post, pots, spot, stop.

-1 letter: ops, opt, pot, sop, sot, top.

-2 letters: op, os, so, to.

+1 letter: estop, pesto, phots, plots, poets, ports, posit, posts, potsy, pouts, prost, sport, spots, spout, stomp, stoop, stope, stops, stopt, stoup, stowp, strop, topes, tophs, topis, topos, typos.

+2 letters: adopts, coapts, compts, coopts, depots, despot, estops, impost, netops, optics, pantos, pastor, pathos, patios, patois, pestos, photos, picots, pilots, pinots, pintos, pistol, piston, pitons, pivots, points, pontes, posits, posset, postal, posted, poster, postin, potash, potsie, pottos, poults, presto, prosit, ptoses, ptosis, puntos, putons, repots, respot, ripost, sapota, sapote, sexpot, sopite, spigot, spinto, spoilt, sports, sporty, spotty, spouts, sprout, stomps, stoops, stoped, stoper, stopes, stoups, stowps, strops, stupor, tempos, tepoys, thorps, topees, topers, tophes, tophus, topics, tossup, tripos, tromps, troops, tropes, unstop, upmost, upshot, uptoss.