top

Definitions

• The highest or uppermost part of something.
• A child’s spinning toy; a spinning top.
• (heading) Someone who is eminent.
• (BDSM) A dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
• (LGBT) A man penetrating or with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse.
• (physics) A top quark.
• The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
• (ropemaking) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
• (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
• (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
• (obsolete, except in one sense of phrase on top of) Eve; verge; point.
• The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
• (in the plural) Topboots.
• (golf) A stroke on the top of the ball.
• (golf) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
• (in restaurants) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.