tops

Likely top +‎ -s (diminutive).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɒps/
• (US) enPR: täps, IPA^(key): /tɑps/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒps

tops (not comparable)

1. (informal) At the very most; as a maximum.

   Your essay should be two pages, tops.

tops (not comparable)

1. (slang, dated) Great; excellent.
   • 1938, Motion Picture Herald, volume 132, numbers 7-13, page 61:

     This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience.

   • 1944 February 2, Katherine Kitchen, “Favorite Recipes: A Sweet Little Blitz!”, in The Sacramento Bee, volume 173, number 28,188, Sacramento, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 4:

     Everyone who has ever eaten a torte loves it. It is tops in the dessert field.

   • 1958 May 5, Billboard, page 139:

     Joe Issenberg, Al Kahn, A. Amato and B. B. Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place.

   • 2022 November 22, Katherine J Igoe, Rachel Varina, “20 Sexiest Movies of 2022 and Where You Can Stream ’Em All Yourself”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[1]:

     But if you feel like sitting down for an evening of *cinema* (or just wanna put something on in the background that you can make out to) sexy movies are kinda tops.

tops

1. plural of top

tops

1. (darts) The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field

   Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.

tops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of top

• post-, OTPs, SPTO, spot, TSOP, OSTP, pots, post., Post, TPOs, stop, post, -post, Spot, POST, POTS, opts, PTOs

tops m

1. plural of top

tops

1. masculine plural of top

• post, pots, spot, stop

tops m pl or f pl

1. plural of top

tops

1. plural of top