topper

Meaning

Noun

• Something that is on top.
• A top hat.
• Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
• A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
• A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
• The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
• The head or chief of an organization.
• Something for cutting off the top of something.
• One who tops steel ingots.
• A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
• A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
• Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
• A fine or remarkable thing or person.
• A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.

Origin

• From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top + -er.