tops

Etymology

adv

  1. (informal) At the very most; as a maximum.
    Your essay should be two pages, tops.

adj

  1. (slang, dated) Great; excellent.
    This is tops for a musical. Popular with the audience. 1938, Motion Picture Herald, volume 132, numbers 7-13, page 61
    Joe Issenberg, Al Kahn, A. Amato and B. B. Saunders all agreed that it was tops for a meeting place. 5 May 1958, Billboard, page 139

noun

  1. plural of top

noun

  1. (darts) The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field
    Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of top

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