topper

Meanings

Plural: toppers

Noun

• a worker who makes or adds the top to something
• a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.)
• the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others
• an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before
• a woman's short coat
• a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
• Something that is on top.
• A top hat.
• Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
• A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
• A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
• The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
• The head or chief of an organization.
• A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
• One who tops steel ingots.
• A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
• A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
• 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.
• A fine or remarkable thing or person.
• A blow on the head.
• A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
• A pencil sharpener.

Synonyms

beaver, best, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat

Related Words

tip-topper, top off, topping