top-notch
adjective
excellent; superb
top-notcher
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a word derived from
top-notch.
Example Sentences
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If he is a top-notcher in his profession he may get hold of ten or twenty of them: more probably he gets hold of two or three.
From Time ● May 9, 2012
A rich-voiced, grey-haired Methodist minister who seldom mounts a pulpit, Miss Harkness teaches philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, is rated a top-notcher among U. S. theologians.
From Time Magazine Archive
The colonel was willing to talk and Geoffrey Annersley discovered that young Holiday was rather by way of being a top-notcher.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Margaret Rebecca Piper
I'm pretty ambitious for that girl of mine and I shouldn't be satisfied short of a top-notcher.
From Shavings by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Yer father could roide afore ye; none better, an' Miss Allis can sit a horse foiner nor any b'y as isn't a top-notcher.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
