topless

[ top-lis ]

adjective
  1. lacking a top: a topless bathing suit.

  2. nude above the waist or hips: topless dancers.

  1. featuring entertainers, waitresses, etc., who are nude above the waist or hips: a topless bar.

  2. extremely high: a topless mountain.

  3. Obsolete. without a peer.

Origin of topless

1
First recorded in 1580–90; top1 + -less

Other words from topless

  • top·less·ness, noun

Words Nearby topless

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British Dictionary definitions for topless

topless

/ (ˈtɒplɪs) /


adjective
  1. having no top

    • denoting a costume which has no covering for the breasts

    • wearing such a costume

  1. archaic immeasurably high

Derived forms of topless

  • toplessness, noun

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