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
Mister Man, I've saw Tim Henan at his best, an' I've saw Sayres when he was a top-notcher, an' likewise several other irregler boxin' sharps that were sure tough tarriers.
From A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West by Frank Norris
He's the Great What Ho—a regular top-notcher, plenty of money, a winner with the women, horses, steam-yacht, everything.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
But Black Pedro was the very top-notcher of them all, the finest flower of piracy.
From The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Edmund Lester Pearson
