toppy

From top +‎ -y.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒpi/

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toppy (comparative more toppy, superlative most toppy)

1. Top-heavy.
2. (US) High-quality (of animals).
3. (music) Characterised by lots of treble.
4. (finance, of an asset or assets in general, or their price) Overpriced, characteristic of the top of a market.
   • 1907, Alasco Delancey Brigham, ‎Henry Rogers Hayden, The Weekly Underwriter, volume 77, page 393:

     […] because of the vast over-extension of credit, inflation, a generally "toppy" condition and a speculative mania in both this country and Europe […]

   • 1995, Bryan Jones, The Farming Game, page 225:

     The average price of an acre of Iowa farmland ratcheted geometrically from $480 in 1970 to $834 in 1974 to a toppy $2147 in 1981.

   • 2022, William D. Cohan, Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon, page 472:

     Inside GE, Michael Pralle, the man who ran the real estate business and built it into a multibillion-dollar colossus, with Jeff's prodding, knew that the real estate business was getting very toppy.

   • 2024 July 24, Investing with a Plan and Process‎^[1]:

     Let’s face it, folks: the markets are toppy right now. Yet no one’s officially calling a recession or suggesting what to do if one appears. This is where signals really matter.

5. (slang) Crazy; mad.
   • 1918 March, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 759, column 3:

     ‘If I don't soon have something sensible to work on I'll go toppy.’

6. (obsolete) Having a top or peak.

• sloppy toppy

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