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topper

/ˈtɑpɚ/ noun C1
  1. Something that is on top.
  2. A top hat.
  3. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank. · In his latest standup set, his topper is a callback to the dog bowl story.
  4. A short outer jacket worn by women or children. (US)
  5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
  6. The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
  7. The head or chief of an organization. (colloquial)
  8. A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.

Plural toppers

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.