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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:

1. to the highest extentplay

  Familiarity information: TIP-TOP used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TIP-TOP (adverb)


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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