topless
Americanadjective
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lacking a top.
a topless bathing suit.
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nude above the waist or hips.
topless dancers.
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featuring entertainers, waitresses, etc., who are nude above the waist or hips.
a topless bar.
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extremely high.
a topless mountain.
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Obsolete. without a peer.
adjective
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having no top
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denoting a costume which has no covering for the breasts
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wearing such a costume
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archaic immeasurably high
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Example Sentences
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A moment later, Antonio Rüdiger was hurling himself, topless, into a morass of delirious Real Madrid fans.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Activists in Catalonia are celebrating after the government of the Spanish region informed its town and city halls that they must allow women to go topless in public swimming pools.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2023
According to German news outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung, there have been two recent cases where topless women have been ordered to leave public swimming pools.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023
The husband-and-wife duo took to Instagram to share their Fourth of July activities, which included taking an oceanside ride in a topless truck with the reality star’s youngest kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
With the educations Tansy made me and Lloyd get, we went out into the world – back east to the great boom of the big city, the topless towers of Indianapolis.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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