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Definition of Tiptops
1. tiptop [n] - See also: tiptop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiptops
Literary usage of Tiptops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1908)
""Another remarkable exhibition of the same science is your asserting that one of
the tracts called the dissenters 'a mob of tiptops, gapes and yawns,' (pp. ..."
2. Complete Works of Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. by Thomas Smyth (1908)
""Another remarkable exhibition of the same science is your asserting that one of
the tracts called the dissenters 'a mob of tiptops, gapes and yawns,' (pp. ..."
3. Tracts for the Times. by John Henry Newman, John Keble, William Palmer, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Isaac Williams, University of Oxford (1840)
"... see the noble old Prayer-book pulled to pieces, just to humours a mob of
tiptops, Gapes, and Yawns," that the writer calls Dissenters by those titles? ..."
4. The Groundswell: A History of the Origin, Aims, and Progress of the Farmers by Jonathan Periam (1874)
"JUDGE tiptops DECISION. The case was heard before Judge Tipton, who gave judgment
against the company. Judge Tipton delivered an elaborate opinion, ..."
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