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A tall hat — the black cylinder-shaped hat that men wore to formal events long ago, and that you still see today on grooms at very formal weddings, on magicians pulling out rabbits, and on the Monopoly game piece. Topper is the short, friendly, informal name for it; the full name is top hat, and that is the one you should use in writing or when you want to be understood everywhere.
A tall hat一種高帽——the black cylinder-shaped hat that men wore to formal events long ago過去男士參加正式場合時戴的黑色圓筒狀帽子, and that you still see today on grooms at very formal weddings現在仍能在非常正式的婚禮新郎身上看到, on magicians pulling out rabbits變戲法拉兔子的魔術師, and on the Monopoly game piece以及大富翁遊戲棋子上也看得到。Topper is the short, friendly, informal name for itTopper是它比較短、親切、非正式的稱呼; the full name is top hat完整名稱是top hat, and that is the one you should use in writing or when you want to be understood everywhere寫作或想讓所有人都聽得懂時，你應該用這個。
Topper sounds British and a bit old-fashioned or joking — a person saying it is often being playful.
Topper sounds British and a bit old-fashioned or jokingTopper聽起來很英式，也有點老派或帶著玩笑意味——a person saying it is often being playful說這個字的人通常是在耍點幽默。
Be careful, because the same spelling is used for other things in English, and which one people hear depends completely on the situation. A topper can also be the thing you put on top: a cake topper is the little decoration standing on a wedding cake, and a mattress topper is the soft layer you lay on your bed. In old British slang, "that's a topper" meant something excellent.
Be careful要小心, because the same spelling is used for other things in English因為英文裡同樣的拼法還可以指別的東西, and which one people hear depends completely on the situation聽的人會理解成哪一個，完全要看當下的情境。A topper can also be the thing you put on toptopper也可以是放在最上面的東西: a cake topper is the little decoration standing on a wedding cakea cake topper是立在婚禮蛋糕上的小裝飾, and a mattress topper is the soft layer you lay on your beda mattress topper則是鋪在床上的一層軟墊。In old British slang在老式英式俚語裡, 'that's a topper' meant something excellent「that's a topper」的意思是「太棒了」。
The hat meaning is the one in this entry, but do not be surprised when you meet the others.
The hat meaning is the one in this entry這個詞條講的是帽子這個意思, but do not be surprised when you meet the others但遇到其他意思時也不用太驚訝。
組成top（頂端、頭頂）+ -er. The -er here is not the "person who does something" -er of teacher or runner. It is the "thing that goes with / belongs to" -er, the same one in cooker and header — so a topper is a top-thing, a thing for your top end.
原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Toppername
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A surname.
toppernoun/ˈtɒpə/
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Something that is on top.
- Deal for network star Henry Morgan to sign a Majestic contract for two albums has fallen thru, with Paul Baron, newly-named artist and repertoire topper at the diskery, kiboshing a deal that virtually had been consummated between his predecessors and Music Corporation of America (MCA).
- Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.
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A top hat.
- When King George sat down in Perylon Hall he thrust his gray topper under the chair, just as you do when you're in the Automat.
- This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.
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Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
- In his latest standup set, his topper is a callback to the dog bowl story.
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A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
- She was wearing her short pink topper and the small red hat that tilted over one eye so that she looked like a refugee starlet from the Gold Diggers film series.
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A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
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The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
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The head or chief of an organization.
- Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]
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A person or tool that cuts off the top of something.
- At first, in the pines, he had worked as a topper in his strong and boldest days, walking up the trees two hundred feet […]
- The only problem is that the best egg toppers, which are different from egg cutters, are an investment — the Inox professional egg topper is $55 at surlatable.com .
另外 8 個記錄的用法
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One who tops steel ingots.
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A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
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A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
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datedslangTobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
- One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a "topper," dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]
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datedslangA fine or remarkable thing or person.
- It was a topper of a day for a Sale, although the heat would be hard on the beasts that had come a long way.
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datedslangA blow on the head.
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A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.
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A pencil sharpener.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。