top banana
Example Sentences
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Prices hovered closer to $0.60 in 2021, when top banana producer Fresh Del Monte started charging a bit more to offset increased production costs.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
Over time, he climbed to the top of the bill as the featured “first comic” or, as it was sometimes called, top banana.
From Washington Post ● May 31, 2016
His father was a top banana, a lead comic, but only on second-rate circuits.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2014
Blame it on Jus Bar’s top banana: his girlfriend, Tiana Garrett.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2014
Technically, he’s top banana as president of the eighth grade, even though he only ran for office to impress Suzy Kraft, who dumped him anyway, the day after the election.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
