topping
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Definitions oftopping
- To cover on the top or with a top.
Example: "I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce."
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
Example: "I don't want to be bald, so just top my hair."
- To excel, to surpass, to beat.
Example: "Titanic was the most successful film ever until it was topped by another Cameron film, Avatar."
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
Example: "Celine Dion topped the UK music charts twice in the 1990s."
- To commit suicide.
Example: "Depression causes many people to top themselves."
- To murder.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
Example: "Giving advice to the dominant partner on how to run the BDSM session is called "topping from the bottom"."
- (gay sexuality) To be the partner who penetrates in anal sex.
- (gay sexuality) To anally penetrate.
- To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower.
Example: "lofty ridges and topping mountains"
- To predominate.
Example: "topping passions"
- To excel; to rise above others.
- To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
Example: "to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening"
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To arrange (fruit, etc.) with the best on top.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
- The act of cutting off the top of something.
- The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
- Either of the cables that support the ends of a spar or boom.
- The tail of an artificial fly.
- Wonderful
- Assuming superiority; proud.
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