top·less

[top-lis]
adjective
1.
lacking a top: a topless bathing suit.
2.
nude above the waist or hips: topless dancers.
3.
featuring entertainers, waitresses, etc., who are nude above the waist or hips: a topless bar.
4.
extremely high: a topless mountain.
5.
Obsolete. without a peer.

Origin:
1580–90; top1 + -less

top·less·ness, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
Cite This Source Link To topless
00:10
Topless is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Collins
World English Dictionary
topless (ˈtɒplɪs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
1.  having no top
2.  a.  denoting a costume which has no covering for the breasts
 b.  wearing such a costume
3.  archaic immeasurably high
 
'toplessness
 
n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Slang Dictionary

topless definition


  1. mod.
    having to do with someone wearing no clothing above the waist, usually a woman. : The cops closed down the topless joint on Maple Street.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT