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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
top-notch
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
top-notch scientists
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As if a steady stream of uncut, top-notch, straight forward soul is what Prince should be striving for!
▪ Glover, 45, and a former top-notch jump jockey, took up training relatively late in his racing career.
▪ Graphically the game is top-notch, the character sprites are large and nicely detailed while movement is fluid and looks very believable.
▪ In theory, a star-driven period melodrama with top-notch production values should have been an attractive proposition for distributors.
▪ The soup is spicy and original, and the house salad dressing is a top-notch blend of oil, vinegar and spices.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
top-notch

also top notch, 1848, from top (adj.) + notch (n.). Figurative of the "highest point" of something, but the exact mechanical image is uncertain.

Wiktionary
top-notch

a. Of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate alt. Of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate

Usage examples of "top-notch".

Gonsalos, he raised both the asking-price and the other requirements for ensigns, sublieutenants, troop-lieutenants, senior lieutenant and sub-captain, after first buying back the ranks of those few men who did not or could not work with or under him, and even so, hardly the day passed but that he found himself approached by top-notch officers or one time officers or wellborn young men, all clearly eager to lay their credentials and money before him.

Preceded by trumpet blasts of Internet buzz and other pre- and post-production unofficial publicity, heralded by kazillions of television and print ads, funded with mega-budgets, and cast with top-notch character actors, the Potter films gloriously burst forth on thousands of screens across the nation, accompanied by a deluge of official products and tie-ins.

The appliances were top-notch and fairly new and there was an island with a cooktop occupied the center, but the room itself had that solid, established feel to it.

By happenstance we now see the Red Arrows, a top-notch team of pilots who put on riveting air shows, and stop by the side of the road a few miles south of Dornoch, near the town of Tain.

I brought my analytical engine with me from the laboratory, but its hardly a top-notch model.

I'd only met him once, and not a memorable meeting at that, but a werewolf's brain categorizes smells with the efficiency of a top-notch filing clerk.

You will remember that there was nothing sub rosa about Gregori's arrival in this country -- it sparked off a minor international crisis, the Italians being hopping mad that one of their top-notch bio-chemists should turn his back on his own country and go to work in Britain.

The production values are top-notch: glossy, thick paper that lets the art shine.

The production values are always top-notch -- heavy, slick paper, rich colors -- and the choice eclectic, ranging from the weird and strange to works of great and luminous beauty.

Despite enjoying an all-time high in sales during 1935 to such diverse pulp magazines as Action Stories, Argosy, Dime Sports Magazine, Spicy-Adventure Stories, Star Western, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Mystery, Top-Notch, Western Aces and, of course, Weird Tales, Robert E.