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over-the-top
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
over-the-top
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She specializes in over-the-top satirical comedy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All too often supposedly top officials turn highly entertaining games into a farce with over-the-top bookings.
▪ Could it be the hysterical over-the-top camerawork, proving any amount of slow-motion and soft-focus still do not actually score as style.
▪ His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail.
▪ It made me cringe at its over-the-top violence.
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over-the-top

a. (alternative spelling of over the top English)

WordNet
over-the-top

adj. far more than usual or expected; "an extraordinary desire for approval"; "it was an over-the-top experience" [syn: extraordinary]

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Over-the-top

Usage examples of "over-the-top".

It is never going to win any beauty contests, but it has some likeable features - an old-fashioned littlecinema called La Scala, a well-preserved market arcade, a large and adorably over-the-top nineteenth-century sandstone castle on a hill, some splendid river walks.

It's considered dooky for a moldie to look too exactly human, though Shimmer and Ptah are so over-the-top that they'll be okay.

Several hundred thousand smaller bodies are speeding towards us right now, earmarked to provide an over-the-top light show for the first night of your new orchestral work at the end of the Twin Novae period.