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• Tops

  adjective 1. ranked among the highest, as in ability, performance, comprehensiveness, or quality: His work is tops. That car is tops. adverb 2. at a maximum; at most: It’ll take an hour, tops. I’ll give you $25 for that, tops. noun 3. the tops, top1 (def 22). noun 1. the highest or loftiest point or […]

• Tops-10

  /tops-ten/ DEC’s proprietary OS for the fabled PDP-10 machines, long a favourite of hackers but now effectively extinct. A fountain of hacker folklore. See also ITS, TOPS-20, TWENEX, VMS, operating system. TOPS-10 was sometimes called BOTS-10 (from “bottoms-ten”) as a comment on the inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything. [Jargon File]

• Topsail-schooner

  noun 1. a sailing vessel fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts with square sails above the foresail, and often with a square sail before the foresail.

• Topscore

  verb (intransitive) (informal) 1. to be the highest scorer in a sports match or competition

• Top-secret

  adjective, (of information, a document, etc.) 1. bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information. 2. limited to persons authorized to use anything so classified. Compare classification (def 5). adjective 1. containing information whose disclosure would cause exceedingly grave damage to the nation and therefore classified as needing the highest level of secrecy […]

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