Definitions for topi

topi to·pi

Spelling: [toh-pee, toh-pee]
IPA: /toʊˈpi, ˈtoʊ pi/

Topi is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in topi (iopt).

Definitions for topi

noun

  1. topee.
  2. an antelope, Damaliscus lunatus, of east-central Africa, having bluish-black and yellow markings.
  3. (in India) a lightweight helmet or sun hat made from the pith of the sola plant.

Origin of topi

1905-10; said to be Swahili

Examples for topi

What the correspondent meant to say was that the colonel had secured a sing-sing waterbuck and a topi.

The American paragraphers also had fun with the word "topi," for they thought a topi was a sun hat much worn in the hot countries.

The topi's nearest relations are the sasseby, the tiang, and the korrigum.

The topi is something like the hartebeest, but much more beautiful and much more rare.

Ungainly hartebeests, and topi whose skins had the sheen of satin, ran with smooth speed.

The cap or topi is not bound round the head, but is placed upon it.

Outboard popped a ruddy little face, set in the green circle of a topi, and contorted with laughter.

"Get my topi, boy, and order the gari quickly," the memsahib called to her bearer.

He thought, further, to prove his sincerity to me by saying he was ready to wear a topi (hat) instead of a turban.

He removed his topi as they wheeled off and she saw that his hair was shot with gray above the temples.

Word Value for topi
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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