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topper

[top-er] / ˈtɒp ər /


NOUN
opera hat
Synonyms


NOUN
top hat
Synonyms




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Researchers also found a pair of broken glasses; an IV needle with a bottle topper; a brass item with writing, perhaps a cigarette case; and a button with Japanese-looking iconography.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

I briefly consider breakfast-for-dinner — biscuits and eggs are always tempting — but land instead on a skillet chicken pot pie: chicken, frozen vegetables, cream, and biscuits as the topper.

From Salon Jan. 11, 2026

“Enjoying this headline? You’re a rarity: Reading for pleasure is declining ...” was the topper to a story by my colleague Hailey Branson-Potts in August.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 30, 2025

Serious crab keepers install a second story to their tank, called a topper, that functions as a playground.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Cooling mattress toppers and bedding that use water or phase change materials may also help.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

The turn-of-the-century molds in his studio — which use botanic motifs, blossoming forms with metallic winged and floral attachments — look like desk toppers fit for an early 1900s eccentric obsessed with Darwinism and industrialization.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

In music, we’ve seen chart toppers from artists such as Sabrina Carpenter, Lil Nas X, and Sam Smith and Kim Petras play with occult imagery.

From Salon Apr. 1, 2026

We also have merch drops, where we’ll give away something, like straw toppers and bumper stickers, with a drink purchase.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 1, 2026

From this the vast space below showed first a moving surface of hats, with few silk toppers among them, but a multitude of panamas and other straws.

From Seven English Cities by William Dean Howells




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