over the top

over the topadj

• 1

  Beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous.

  • I had come to regard the New Capitalism as an experiment till, in 1929, the whole thing went over the top and slid down to an utter collapse.
  • You might have expected a pop star known for shows in which she has someone vomit paint on to the stage to come up with something similarly over the top for a live rendition of The Sound of Music. But Gaga chose to take the traditional route.
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  communicationcommunicationsDelivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.

  • The question was you don't have to hard cut the network over from proprietary to open. You can actually do it in stages and this device can lay over the top of existing proprietary networks.
  • Back to the BYOA strategy, that we'll continue to create, you know, a BYOA product that we sell over the top, is that there will be a lot of customers that will want to do business with us that way.
• 3

  agriculturebusinesslifestyleDownward onto plants in the field, as contrasted with other routes of administration.

  • over-the-top dicamba for dicamba-tolerant crops

over the topadv

• 1

  Egregiously; beyond compare.

  • On InfoWars, Alex Jones told his audience, "This is over the top sickening. Next they'll say Jeffrey Epstein never even existed. This is the swamp winning. No one is buying this."

over the topadv

• 1

  Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack.

  • The men were sent over the top to their certain death.
• 2

  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, top.