humming top

noun

a top that hums as it spins

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If the lady tells tits, I shall put a very grave and moral face on the matter with the old gentleman, and make his little boy a present of a humming top.

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Artur has got a new humming top--oh my, how it dances.

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My head’s like a humming top; it serves me right for drinking.

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Kay glanced at the huge, humming top that filled the center of the laboratory.

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Dainty señoritas trip across the way in red-heeled slippers of Cinderella-like proportions, while noisy, laughing, happy children, girls and boys, romp with pet dogs, trundle ribbon-decked hoops, or spin gaudy humming tops.

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