tops

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/tɒps/ (UK)
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/tɒps/ (UK) · /tɑps/ (US)

Definition of tops

7 senses · 5 parts of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. (informal, not-comparable)At the very most; as a maximum.
    “Your essay should be two pages, tops.”
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adv

  1. (informal, not-comparable)At the very most; as a maximum.
    “Your essay should be two pages, tops.”

adj

  1. (dated, not-comparable, slang)Great; excellent.
    “This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience.”
    “Everyone who has ever eaten a torte loves it. It is tops in the dessert field.”
    “Joe Issenberg, Al Kahn, A. Amato and B. B. Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place.”
    “But if you feel like sitting down for an evening of *cinema* (or just wanna put something on in the background that you can make out to) sexy movies are kinda tops.”

noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of top
  2. The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field
    “Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.”
  3. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable)Acronym of twin oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios sequence.

verb

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of top

name

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of Top

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Etymology

Likely top + -s (diminutive).

Hooks

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