tiptop

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   informal: excellent or of the highest quality

   Everyone agreed that the house and its cooking were tiptop.

2. 2
   noun

   the very highest point, position, or degree

   The climber reached the tiptop of the ridge shortly before noon.

3. 3
   adv

   in excellent condition or fashion

   The mechanic left the engine running tiptop again.

Formed from tip + top and recorded from the early eighteenth century for the extreme summit. The figurative adjective 'of the highest quality' followed soon afterward. This history predates and is unrelated to later products using Tip Top as a brand name.

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