topsider

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noun

A boat shoe.

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Meanings

nountopsider (plural topsiders)

plural topsiders

  1. A boat shoe.
    1 more example

    15 other women got together and we all wore the dyke outfit of the sixties, which was topsiders or weejun loafers, cordoroy ^([sic]) pants, oxford cloth shirts, either a seersucker or a madras jacket, a pinky ring and a Dunhill lighter. And we all wore a skirt over our heads, sort of like a nun thing.

    1980 April 19, Cindy Rizzo, Maxine Feldman, “Give Me That Ol' Lesbianism!”, in Gay Community News, page 8

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
boat shoe

Origin

topside + -er

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

portsidedipterosdropsite
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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