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TIP-TOP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tip-top mean?
• TIP-TOP (adverb)
The adverb TIP-TOP has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TIP-TOP used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To the highest extent
Context example:
the shoes fit me tip-top
Context examples
“Here's the compass; there's the tip-top p'int o' Skeleton Island, stickin' out like a tooth. Just take a bearing, will you, along the line of them bones.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Pay attention to feedback you get on March 8, when Venus and Uranus form a perfect conjunction at the tip-top of your chart.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You may be a number one, tip-top minin' expert, all right all right, the dog-musher delivered himself oracularly, but you missed the chance of your life when you was a boy an' didn't run off an' join a circus.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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