'Top out' definitions:
Definition of 'top out'
(from WordNet)
verb
Give up one's career just as one becomes very successful; "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out"
verb
Provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure); "the towers were topped with conical roofs" [syn: top, top out]
verb
To reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" [syn: top out, peak] [ant: bottom out]
Definition of 'Top out'
From: GCIDE
- Top out \Top out\ (Building) To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a
- {top`ping-out" course}). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Words containing 'Top out'
- To top off,
- Top,
- Top and but,
- Topful,
- Topped,
- Topping,
- Toppingly,
- top off,
- topping off,
- tops,
- From top to toe,
- Monitor top,
- Mountain Top,
- Peg top,
- Round Top,
- Tank top,
- Top billing,
- Top fermentation,
- Top hamper,
- Top minnow,
- Top rake,
- Top secret,
- Top sergeant,
- Topping lift,
- big top,
- calash top,
- gallows top,
- humming top,
- off the top of my head,
- over-the-top,
- spinning top,
- tip top,
- top banana,
- top boot,
- top brass,
- top dog,
- top dressing,
- top executive,
- top hat,
- top heavy,
- top lift,
- top notch,
- top of the inning,
- top of the line,
- top onion,
- top priority,
- top quark,
- top round,
- top shape,
- top side,
- top-down,
- top-up,
- whip top,
- whipping top,
- Broad Top City,
- High-top,
- Mountain Top, PA,
- Round Top, TX,
- Top-armor,
- Top-block,
- Top-boots,
- Top-chain,
- Top-cloth,
- Top-drain,
- Top-draining,
- Top-dress,
- Top-dressed,
- Top-dressing,
- Top-hamper,
- Top-heavy,
- Top-light,
- Top-of-the-World,
- Top-proud,
- Top-rope,
- Top-shaped,
- Top-shell,
- Top-tackle,
- Top-timbers,
- Top-tool,
- Tops-and-bottoms,
- Turban-top,
- caliche-topped,
- celery top pine,
- flat-top,
- flat-topped,
- high-topped,
- rattle-top,
- screw-topped,
- tip-top,
- top fermenting yeast,
- top-flight,
- top-grade,
- top-hole,
- top-notch,
- top-quality,
- top-secret,
- topping-out course,
- Broad Top City, PA,
- Top-of-the-World, AZ,
- celery-topped pine,
- tilt-top table,
- tip-top table,
- white-topped aster,
- flat-topped white aster,
- crested top-knotted topknotted tufted,
- narrow-leaved white-topped aster