cold top
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of cold top
First recorded in 1995–2000
Example Sentences
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When grown cold, top growth on your seedlings will be short and stocky, but the plants’ roots are actively growing.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Not a cold top, shank, blade; a straight "Grandma playing for the first time" woooooshhhh.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2018
Plus 1,460 was a cold top, 90 match points out of 90.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2014
Plus 200 was a cold top for Buxton and Townsend.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
On the bare and cold top of that mountain which divides Lanark from Dumfriesshire.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
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