tops

See also: Tops and TOPS

English

Etymology

Likely top +‎ -s (diminutive).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒps

Adverb

tops (not comparable)

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

   Your essay should be two pages, tops.

Translations

maximum

• Dutch: maximum (nl), maximaal (nl), hooguit (nl)
• Finnish: enintään (fi), korkeintaan (fi)
• Polish: góra (pl)
• Spanish: como mucho
• Swedish: max (sv), högst (sv)

Adjective

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.

   • 2022 November 22, Katherine J Igoe, Rachel Varina, “20 Sexiest Movies of 2022 and Where You Can Stream ’Em All Yourself”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     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

tops

1. plural of top

Noun

tops

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

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

Verb

tops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of top

Anagrams

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

French

Noun

tops m

1. plural of top

Adjective

tops

1. masculine plural of top

Anagrams

• post, pots, spot, stop

Spanish

Adjective

tops m pl or f pl

1. plural of top

Noun

tops

1. plural of top