Definitions for topside

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topside top·side

Spelling: [top-sahyd]

IPA: /ˈtɒpˌsaɪd/

Topside is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in topside (deiopst).

Definitions for topside

noun

1. the upper side.
2. Usually, topsides. Nautical. the outer surface of a hull above the water.
3. the most authoritative position or level.
4. Chiefly British. a cut of beef similar to a U.S. rump roast. Compare silverside (def 1).
5. British. the top or outer side of a round of beef; beef from the outer thigh of a butchered cow.

adverb

1. Also, topsides. up on the deck:
2. to, toward, or at the topside.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or located on the topside.
2. of the most authoritative rank.

Origin of topside

First recorded in 1670-80; top¹ + side¹

Examples for topside

It was the complete lack of order and sanity and that let me get topside.

It had been displaced a full fifteen degrees on the topside of optimum power!

But how we ever dropped from the topside to the quarter-deck without being killed is more than I can figure out.

With that topside staring him in the face, he'll have something to read in the hereafter.

This was a country house of Larkin's, topside, not far from the outskirts of World City.

But not so with these; these had no such tricks; these undertook to maintain me topside up with care.

The Colonel has an individual dugout, and Dodds sleeps "topside" in the trench.

There was a branch slanting up from the topside of the fallen tree.

The pumps being attended to drew out the water which was forced down the hatches, mast-coats, and topside forwards.

Plenty time lockee up Missy topside house; no can walkee—no can talkee—no hab got—how can get?