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verb/tɒp/
/tɑːp/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they top | /tɒp/ /tɑːp/ |
| he / she / it tops | /tɒps/ /tɑːps/ |
| past simple topped | /tɒpt/ /tɑːpt/ |
| past participle topped | /tɒpt/ /tɑːpt/ |
| -ing form topping | /ˈtɒpɪŋ/ /ˈtɑːpɪŋ/ |
- top something to be higher than a particular amount
- Worldwide sales look set to top $1 billion.
- top something to be in the highest position on a list because you are the most successful, important, etc.
- The band topped the charts for five weeks with their first single.
- [usually passive] to put something on the top of something else
- be topped by/with something The chapel was topped by a dome of white marble.
- fruit salad topped with cream
- top something to say or do something that is better, funnier, more impressive, etc. than something that somebody else has said or done in the past
- I'm afraid the other company has topped your offer (= offered more money).
- He has a house in five European capitals—how do you top that?
Extra Examples- It was a wonderful performance, and I challenge anyone to top that.
- Topping all the others by far, the award went to one of Hollywood's most respected actors.
- top yourself (British English, informal) to kill yourself deliberately
- top something (literary) to reach the highest point of a hill, etc.
be more
be the best
put on top
say/do something better
kill yourself
climb hill
Word Originverb late Old English topp (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch top ‘summit, crest’.
Idioms
See top in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee top in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishtop and tail something
- (British English) to cut the top and bottom parts off fruit and vegetables to prepare them to be cooked or eatenMore Like This Alliteration in idiomsAlliteration in idioms
- belt and braces
- black and blue
- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spick and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane
to top/cap it all
- (informal) used to introduce the final piece of information that is worse than the other bad things that you have just mentioned
- And then, to top it all, it started to rain!
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