Crossword clues for topper
topper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topper \Top"per\, n.
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One that tops, in any sense of the verb; specif.:
A cover of a top layer or part. [Colloq.]
One that excels, surpasses, or is extraordinary of its kind. [Slang]
Any device for cutting off tops; as, a turnip topper.
One who tops steel ingots.
A three-square float (file) used by comb makers.
A top hat. [Slang or Colloq.]
Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; -- so called from its being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. Also, a cigar stump. [Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the best (of anything)," 1709, originally slang, agent noun from top (v.).
Wiktionary
n. Something that is on top.
WordNet
n. a worker who makes or adds the top to something
a worker who cuts tops off (of trees or vegetables etc.)
the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others; "he could beat the best of them" [syn: best]
an exceedingly good witticism that surpasses all that have gone before
a woman's short coat
a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with beaver or silk [syn: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, beaver]
Wikipedia
Topper or Toppers may refer to:
The Topper is an 11 foot sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. The Topper is a one-design boat sailed mostly around Ireland and the United Kingdom. It was recognised as an International class by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). The boat is constructed from polypropylene, and is popular as a racing boat or for sail training. The class association (itca) organise the racing events. these events range from small travellers to major championship's.The RYA run squads alongside the events in these squads are talented young sailors who are given specialist race coaching.
Topper ( 1937) is an American comedy film starring Constance Bennett and Cary Grant and featuring Roland Young, which tells the story of a stuffy, stuck-in-his-ways man, Cosmo Topper ( Roland Young) who is haunted by the ghosts of a fun-loving married couple.
The film was adapted by Eric Hatch, Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the novel by Thorne Smith. The movie was directed by Norman Z. McLeod, produced by Hal Roach, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The supporting cast includes Billie Burke and Eugene Pallette. Topper was a huge hit with film audiences in the summer of 1937; since Cary Grant had a percentage deal on the film, he made quite a bit of money on the film's success.
Topper was the first black-and-white film to be digitally colorized, re-released in 1985 by Hal Roach Studios.
A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips and single-panel cartoons to their page.
Toppers usually were drawn by the same artist as the larger strip. These strips usually were positioned at the top of the page (hence their name), but they sometimes ran beneath the main strip.
Toppers were introduced by King Features Syndicate during the 1920s, enabling newspaper editors to claim more comic strips without adding more pages. The practice allowed newspapers to drop the topper and place an additional strip or an additional advertisement into the Sunday comics section. They also made it possible to reformat a strip from full-page size to tabloid size.
In 1904, Frederick Opper drew his And Her Name Was Maud, about the kicking mule Maud, into comic strips, books and animation, but on May 23, 1926, Opper positioned And Her Name Was Maud as the topper to his Happy Hooligan, and it ran along with Happy Hooligan until both strips came to a conclusion on October 14, 1932. On May 16, 1926, Harold Knerr began Dinglehoofer und His Dog Adolph, a topper to The Katzenjammer Kids, which ran until two years after his death. By 1936, to avoid any association with Adolf Hitler, the dog's name was changed to Schnappsy (aka Schnapps). Knerr's strip was reformatted for reprints in Magic Comics in the early 1940s.
Billy DeBeck's topper for Barney Google was Parlor Bedroom and Sink, which evolved into Parlor Bedroom and Sink Starring Bunky and eventually was titled simply Bunky. In the mid-1930s, DeBeck added alongside Bunky a single-panel topper, Knee-Hi-Knoodles, depictions of kids' funny remarks (contributed by readers). Bunky spawned the catchphrase, "Youse is a viper, Fagin." A big fan of Bunky was pulp author Robert E. Howard, who liked to quote from the strip, as noted by his friend Tevis Clyde Smith:
Topper is an American fantasy sitcom based on the 1937 film Topper, which was based on two novels Topper and Topper Takes a Trip by Thorne Smith. The series was broadcast on CBS from October 9, 1953 to July 15, 1955, and stars Leo G. Carroll in the title role. It finished at #24 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1954-1955 season. Topper also earned an Emmy nomination for Best Situation Comedy in 1954.
Topper is a sportswear brand owned by Alpargatas, with business in South America (mainly in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay) and Asia. Its products range from footwear and clothing to underwear, sport bags, balls, and equipment in general for football, basketball, volleyball, rugby union and tennis.
In Brazil, Topper supplies athletic footwear and garments for outdoor and indoor football and other sports. The brand is also operating in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other Asian countries.
Usage examples of "topper".
He pulled the fitted sheet back and saw that the mattress had been covered with a soft polyurethane topper.
In this belittered and uncorseted neighbourhood Topper feels more at ease.
In their own place, the gentlemen left their toppers, bemedalled officers their caps.
Topper had thought he had seen the dog at his maddest, but never had he seen him wear such a completely gone expression as the one now torturing his face.
And out there along that moonpath the small figure of Marion Kerby is speeding farther and farther away from him, Topper very much fears.
Topper, not to be outdone, snatched her fleeting triumph by saying that he was just as well pleased.
As the glossy horses pranced by Merrion square Master Patrick Aloysius Dignam, waiting, saw salutes being given to the gent with the topper and raised also his new black cap with fingers greased by porksteak paper.
There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.
All around us in gray toppers and frothy dresses the Ascot crowd swirled, a feast to the eye in the sunshine, a ritual in make-believe, a suppression of gritty truth.
His topper wobbles, as if a strange A-life experiment is struggling to escape from its false bottom.
The trader eased off the beaver topper of which he was inordinately proud, mopped his brow and decided that he would not let the young man spoil his air of bonhommie.
In front of him stood the district attorney, Ed Topper, a slight man in his forties, with crinkly salt-and-pepper hair cut en brosse, and cold, black eyes.
If, right after that, I ask him to put on lavender gloves and a topper and distribute the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School, there will be a divorce in the family.
Ben's long knitted muffler was draped incongruously over the chandelier, dangling its soiled tassels, and his many hats - including the silk topper and the Santa Claus cap - were to be seen on tables, hatracks, chair seats and lamp chimneys.
Lunch in the Struan box for the thirty-six guests had been a lavish buffet of hot Chinese foods or, if they preferred, hot steak-and-kidney pie and vegetables, with plates of smoked salmon, hors d'oeuvres and cold cuts, cheeses and pastries of all kinds and as a topper, a meringue sculpture of the Struan Building all prepared in their own kitchen.