English dictionary
topper
nounPronunciation
/ˈtɔ.pə/
/ˈtɒ.pə/
/ˈtɑ.pɚ/
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- 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.
- Something for cutting 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 small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
