topper

Meaning

1. Something that is on top.
2. A top hat.
3. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
4. A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
6. The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
7. (colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.
8. A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
9. One who tops steel ingots.
10. A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
11. A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
12. (slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
13. (slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
14. (slang) A blow on the head.
15. A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
16. A pencil sharpener.

Synonyms

top hat

best

dress hat

high hat

silk hat

stovepipe

opera hat

beaver

🦫

tiptop

first-rate

flood tide

foremost

height

heyday

high

hotshot

maximum

peak

point

stovepipe hat

summit

super

superlative

tip

top

🔝

topnotch

tops

whiz

A-one

stove pipe

beaver hat

ace

acme

apex

brow

chimney-pot hat

choice

crest

crown

👑

Hyphenated as

top‧per

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɒpə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: toppor

In summary

From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.