English Dictionary

topper

/ˈtɒ.pə/

noun

Something that is on top. / A top hat. / Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank. / (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.

The topper of the class received a scholarship.

意味（1）

Something that is on top.

UK act the Prodigy will headline the Boiler Room, with chart toppers the Ting Tings playing at 2.15pm on the green stage.

意味（2）

A top hat.

This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.

意味（3）

Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.

意味（4）

(chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.

She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.

意味（5）

A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.

意味（6）

(India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.

意味（7）

(colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.

Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]

意味（8）

A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.

At first, in the pines, he had worked as a topper in his strong and boldest days, walking up the trees two hundred feet […]

意味（9）

One who tops steel ingots.

意味（10）

A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.

意味（11）

A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.

意味（12）

(dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.

One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a topper, dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]

意味（13）

(dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.

意味（14）

(dated, slang) A blow on the head.

意味（15）

A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.