Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal First-rate; excellent.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of the highest quality; excellent, first-rate
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of the highest quality
Examples
“A piece of software can insert the phrase "top-notch outing" in an article.”
“I thought we had a top-notch investigative staff, and I happily dug into the documents and ran the hearings.”
“But the cast was top-notch and in Freddie and Bel I haven't seen such unexploded chemistry since Grace Kelly nursed James Stewart's broken leg in Rear Window.”
“Its top-notch security and communications network appealed to Tillman and national security advisers.”
USA Today: Air Force One pilot's 9/11 mission: Keep president safe
“It's a double-edged sword, having the luxury of a lot of top-notch talent," pitcher Phil Hughes said.”
“Last month's reversal in some key economic indicators, the debt-ceiling debacle, the downgrade of the U.S.'s top-notch credit rating and the European debt crisis all conspired to send confidence tumbling.”
The Wall Street Journal: Search Continues for the Bold U.S. Consumer
“Doesn't the Fifth Republic share those top-notch, triple-A ratings with the U.S., but—a crucial difference—with the emollient 'stable outlooks' that mean the Great Arbiters at Standard & Poor's and Moody's are relaxed about it keeping them?”
The Wall Street Journal: It's Not So Far-Fetched To Be Worried About France
“Lastpass's form fill option is also a top-notch time saver. purduepete”
Mozilla Weave To Integrate Auto-Logins To Firefox | Lifehacker Australia
“A classic xbox with XBMC is far, far, far and away the cheapest way to get a top-notch media center integrated into your home theater.”
XBMC 9.04 “Babylon” Updates For All Supported Platforms | Lifehacker Australia
“As mentioned, the cast is top-notch up and down the line, from Kurtz refusing to sugarcoat Olive down to Butler's amusingly tart and inferior-feeling illustrator.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: Theater: "Olive and the Bitter Herbs"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘top-notch’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Words & Phrases #3 (Getting There...)
prescription, diminish, stringent, tone, tugboat, geek, top-notch, retrofit, paranoid, ferris wheel, fountain, apex and 8 more...
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jberkel's list
toodeloo, bedraggled, smithereen, vitriol, obviate, malarkey, scallion, top-notch, awry, twig, pear-shaped, teh and 64 more...
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Words from a 1999 'Girl, Interrupted' film.
top-notch, stunt, demise, bum, pecker, laxative, rotisserie, lifer, borderline, fatso, loon, dyke and 25 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for top-notch.
bilby "Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort - tombs to hold bookworms. Profs from Oxford show frosh who do post-docs how to gloss works of Wordsworth. Dons who work for proctors or provosts do not fob off school to work on crossroads, nor do dons go off to dorm rooms to loll on cots. Dons go crosstown to look for bookshops known to stock lots of top-notch goods: cookbooks, workbooks - room on room of how-to-books for jocks (how to jog, how to box), books on pro sports: golf or polo. Old colophons on schoolbooks from schoolrooms sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both on worn morocco."
- Christian Bok, 'Eunoia'. Oct 30, 2008