top
/tɑp/ verb C1- To cover on the top or with a top. · I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed. · Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of). · Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree) · I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair.· Top and tail the carrots.
- To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay. · I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping.· Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom".
- To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
He/she/it tops · Past topped · Past participle topped · -ing form topping
Verb forms
- Base form
- top
- He/she/it
- tops
- Past
- topped
- Past participle
- topped
- -ing form
- topping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The Greek e with the peculiar top flourish is distinctive.
Having shaken them together thoroughly, he filled the top of the Scarecrow’s head with the mixture and stuffed the rest of the space with straw, to hold it in place.
His head was quite bulged out at the top with brains.
Presently they heard a solemn Voice, that seemed to come from somewhere near the top of the great dome, and it said:
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