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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A three-masted Malay lugger, from 50 to 60 feet long, and from 10 to 12 feet wide and about as deep. It sails well, and carries a large cargo.

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Examples

  • She was chattering happily as we came out after the third act, and caught the eye of the bold Oscar, who was holding forth languidly to a group of his fritillaries near the bar entrance, looking as usual like an overfed trout in a toup-.

    Watershed 2010

  • Was he so confident because he knew he had to be in order to compensate for the toup?

    The Truth and Reconciliation Hairstyle Challenge Fresca 2010

  • Fraser Nelsonwarns that David Cameron needs toup his game.

    Just in case you missed them... 2009

  • Fraser Nelsonwarns that David Cameron needs toup his game.

    Just in case you missed them... 2009

  • Fraser Nelsonwarns that David Cameron needs toup his game.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • I'm tired of hearing John McCain's "My Friends," sick of Sarah Palin's phoney corn-pone accent, bored with Biden's too-wide smile does he wear a toup?

    Hola! Thoughts on Voting, Etc. Jan 2008

  • Was this really the best way you could think of seeing if Trump wore a toup?

    Beat 360° 9/22/08 2008

  • I'm tired of hearing John McCain's "My Friends," sick of Sarah Palin's phoney corn-pone accent, bored with Biden's too-wide smile does he wear a toup?

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • By the early 1970s he had given that up to make money again, and he was back in a tux and under a toup, snapping his fingers to "Mack the Knife" in his own TV variety series.

    Chameleon With a Toupee 2005

  • By the early 1970s he had given that up to make money again, and he was back in a tux and under a toup, snapping his fingers to "Mack the Knife" in his own TV variety series.

    Chameleon With a Toupee 2005

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