tabletop
Americannoun
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tabletops
plural
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a surface forming or suggesting the top of a table.
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a photograph of an arrangement of objects on top of a table.
adjective
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intended for use on the top of a table or the like.
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noting or relating to an arrangement of objects, especially miniatures or models, as would be appropriate to the top of a table.
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noting or relating to a type of game that requires the physical presence of players and the manipulation of game pieces, in contrast to video games.
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Origin of tabletop
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Although the central microchip is only about the size of a grain of rice, the entire system currently occupies a tabletop laboratory setup.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
My glass of vermút sweats down to the turquoise tabletop.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
UK-based Games Workshop previously announced Warhammer superfan Henry Cavill would produce and star in TV and film projects based on the miniature tabletop wargame.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Friends recalled her body-shaking laugh and one remembered her dancing on a tabletop during a birthday party.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
She rapped on the ice tabletop with her knuckles.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Your television itself may be obsolete, replaced by wraparound digital glasses or interactive tabletops that transform how you watch the Super Bowl, the World Cup or Wimbledon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
But Farmer, Li, and colleagues only cleaned horizontal surfaces like floors and tabletops, not the walls and ceilings, which may be where the remaining emissions originated.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 13, 2023
The flat features shelves filled with books, tabletops brimming with family snapshots and paintings by Mexican artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
As for the tabletops, they are ceramic, rendered in high-gloss reds and blues that mirror the surfaces of the region’s lakes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
They tumbled, balanced and gyrated, cavorting comically across the laden tabletops without upsetting as much as a single sultana.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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