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1. (British, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.Examples: "Depression causes many people to top themselves."Britishreflexiveslang

2. (British, slang, rare, chiefly archaic) To murder or execute.Examples: "Thirty-six were cast for death, and only one was ‘topped’ (hanged), the very one that expected to be ‘turned up’ (acquitted) for highway robbery."Synonyms: kill, murder, slaughter, slay, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of lifeBritisharchaicrareslang

3. (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.Examples: "I used to be a slave, but I ended up topping."; "Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom"."; "As I went on doing s/m more and more, I found the idea of topping real attractive and so I started to do that. At this point in my life I'm playing top almost all the time."

4. (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during intercourse.intransitivetransitive

5. (archaic) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.Examples: "topping passions"; "lofty and topping mountains"; ", Book II, Chapter XXI influenced by that topping uneasiness"archaic

6. (archaic) To excel; to rise above others.archaic

1. (informal) Best; of the highest quality, fame or rank.Examples: "She's in the top dance school."informalnot-comparable

2. (informal) Very good, of high quality, power, or rank.Examples: "He's a top lawyer."; "That is a top car."; "In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff."informalnot-comparable

3. (transgender) Relating to the chest or breasts.Examples: "top surgery"not-comparable

1. (obsolete) The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.Examples: "My hairs, you perceive, are grown grey in following our sublime trade: full many a time have I cried top in the winter, the first of all the gentlemen on the board; and many a time has it fallen to my lot to apply the snuffers, and take off the filthy excrescence from the candle myself, but never before, in the experience of fifty long years, was it thought that English tailors were inferior to foreign ones."; ""Well," replied Davie, […] "a wilful woman must have her way like any man — and I doubt your patience is sorely tried, Barbara — Top!" This last expression, which may seem rather irrelevant, had direct reference to the wick of the candle, which required snuffing […]"obsolete