tiptopper

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noun

An upper-class person or aristocrat.

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Meanings

nountiptopper (plural tiptoppers)

plural tiptoppers

  1. slangAn upper-class person or aristocrat.

    […] tiptoppers like a bit of fun as well as anybody else: it can't all be state concerts at Buckingham Palace. I don't know whether they still have midnight tobogganing on tea-trays down the stair- cases of country houses […]

    1893, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 87, page 367

Origin

tiptop + -er

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APA

tiptopper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiptopper

MLA

“tiptopper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiptopper. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tiptopper,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiptopper.

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