Definitions for topsides

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topsides top·side

Spelling: [top-sahyd]

IPA: /ˈtɒpˌsaɪd/

Topsides is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in topsides (deiopsst).

Definitions for topsides

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 topsides

First recorded in 1670-80; top¹ + side¹

Examples for topsides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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