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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
topless
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
▪ In addition to the examples mentioned above, one might also encounter a topless bar, I hear Torquay has gone topless.
▪ The Richard administration's refusal to release a report commissioned by the city regarding regulation of topless bars is no exception.
dancer
▪ No topless dancers, no hard drugs, no trial.
▪ Nikita and the other topless dancers in town are worried.
▪ Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin gets caught in a hotel room with two topless dancers and a mobile pharmacy.
▪ One succeeded, so that the drinkers of Corona can see topless dancers touch themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consider, by way of illustration, the example of topless.
▪ Nikita and the other topless dancers in town are worried.
▪ No topless dancers, no hard drugs, no trial.
▪ The former topless model took action which led to police being called when Davidson tried to get back in this week.
▪ The Richard administration's refusal to release a report commissioned by the city regarding regulation of topless bars is no exception.
▪ There is a long silence, broken only by a man belching and a topless, middle-aged woman giggling.
▪ They became involved in an altercation with two white men, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, at a topless club.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topless

Topless \Top"less\, a.

  1. Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. `` The topless Apennines.'' ``Topless fortunes.''
    --Beau. & Fl.

  2. wearing no clothes above the waist, said especially of women.

  3. featuring entertainment by women wearing no clothes above the waist; as, a topless go-go joint.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
topless

of women, "bare-breasted," 1966, from top (n.1) + -less. Earlier it was used of men's bathing suits (1937) and women's (1964). Earliest sense is "without a visible summit; immeasurably high" (1580s).

Wiktionary
topless

a. 1 Lacking a top. 2 (context poetic English) Very high, towering. 3 (context chiefly of a woman English) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up. 4 (context of a place English) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers. n. (context automotive English) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

WordNet
topless
  1. adj. having no top; "a topless jar" [ant: topped]

  2. having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity; "topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret" [syn: bare-breasted, braless]

Wikipedia
Topless

Topless may refer to:

  • Toplessness, the state in which the breasts of a woman or post-pubescent girl are exposed
Topless (stage play)

Topless is a one-woman stage play by Miles Tredinnick. It is set on an open-top sightseeing bus and features tour guide Sandie revealing her personal life whilst pointing out the London sights. The play, produced by The Big Bus Company, ran for two seasons in London, firstly in 1999 (directed by Martin Bailey) and then in 2000 (directed by Miles Tredinnick). The role of Sandie was played by three actresses: Rachael Carter, Alexandra Moses and Serena Hanson. Although the play was written to be performed in theatres, the original production was actually performed on the open-top of a double-decker bus driving around the streets of London.

An acting edition was published by Matador Books in 2006 and a Kindle ebook version came out in 2011.

Usage examples of "topless".

And he rolled his good eye towards Pippa and Loz, who stood, topless as ever, chatting away at the other end of the bar.

I cast a glance or two at the giant pictures of zoftig girls with silicone boobs, Carol Doda and The Persian Lamb who chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than leave her husband -- all coming at me from the fronts of tourist traps, Topless Joints with fat Filipino barkers dragging in the customers out for a score or at least a hard-on.

Wearing a silver wig but topless and muscular and sporting a Vandyke beard so bright Bonny sees purple-afterimage trails when he shakes his head.

The topless woman turned her head slightly-saw a four-, maybe five-foot silverish shadow not twelve inches away.

He liked starlets and models, topless dancers and magazine centerfolds, his taste typically running toward women with more cleavage than brains.

I cast a glance or two at the giant pictures of zoftig girls with silicone boobs, Carol Doda and The Persian Lamb who chained herself to the Golden Gate Bridge rather than leave her husband -- all coming at me from the fronts of tourist traps, Topless Joints with fat Filipino barkers dragging in the customers out for a score or at least a hard-on.

A tough judoka was sent to work as a hairstylist, and a very proper young lady, one who had been living with her parents all her life, was sent to a topless bar in Roppongi.

And always to the east, far beyond the city walls and the leagues of pasture land, rose the gaunt grey sides of those topless and impassable peaks across which hideous Leng was said to lie.

The topless clone halted in mid-deal and waited, holding the pack of long rectangular cards in front of her full breasts, to see what would happen.

Unlike so many fearless men devoted to pickup trucks, guns, topless bars and the Southern Cross, he had not been born into the tribe of Bubbas, but rather had grown up the son of a theologian in the Northside neighborhood of Ginter Park, where old mansions were in disrepair and Civil War cannonballs on porches were popular.

The shadows were deep now, the air cooling, but the topless towers of Ilium were still lighted by the red sun setting in the west.

I resented the topless sunbathers, the palm trees and aloe vera plants, the shingly beaches and the exquisite blue sea, the casino and the hotels, the villas on the hills, the skyscraper apartment blocks, the suntanned youths on motorbikes, the wind surfers and paraskiers, the speedboats, pedalos and beach huts.

Another held a butterfly knife and a Polaroid photograph of Little White, topless.

Great museums, art galleries, universities, concert halls, bookstores, libraries, the Mount Hamilton observatory Less than a year ago, at a cutting-edge establishment in this very city, the first topless dancers in the United States appeared onstage.

An organic patrol car, a small green three-wheeled electric vehicle with a topless frame, drove slowly by him.