TIPTOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tiptop mean? 

• TIPTOP (noun)
  The noun TIPTOP has 2 senses:

1. the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

2. the extreme top or summit

  Familiarity information: TIPTOP used as a noun is rare.

• TIPTOP (adjective)
  The adjective TIPTOP has 1 sense:

1. of the highest quality

  Familiarity information: TIPTOP used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIPTOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

acme; elevation; height; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; superlative; tiptop; top

Context example:

at the top of his profession

Hypernyms ("tiptop" is a kind of...):

degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The extreme top or summit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("tiptop" is a kind of...):

top; top side; upper side; upside (the highest or uppermost side of anything)

• TIPTOP (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of the highest quality

Synonyms:

A-one; ace; crack; first-rate; super; tiptop; top-notch; topnotch; tops

Context example:

she is absolutely tops

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

"I never knew what it was to live till I hit hoboin'. I'm thirty pounds heavier an' feel tiptop all the time. Why, I was worked to skin an' bone in them old days. Hoboin' sure agrees with me."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)