tops

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɒps/
• (US) enPR: täps, IPA^(key): /tɑps/

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• Rhymes: -ɒps

tops (not comparable)

1. (informal) At the very most; as a maximum.

   Your essay should be two pages, tops.

tops (not comparable)

1. (slang, dated) Great; excellent.
   • 1938, Motion Picture Herald, volume 132, numbers 7-13, page 61:

     This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience.

   • 1958 May 5, Billboard, page 139:

     Joe Issenberg, Al Kahn, A. Amato and B. B. Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place.

tops

1. plural of top

tops

1. (darts) The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field

   Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.

tops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of top

• OTPs, POST, POTS, PTOs, Post, Spot, TPOs, opts, post, post-, post., pots, spot, stop

tops m

1. plural of top

tops

1. masculine plural of top

• post, pots, spot, stop

tops m pl or f pl

1. plural of top

tops

1. plural of top