top-notcher
- 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
But Black Pedro was the very top-notcher of them all, the finest flower of piracy.
From The Voyage of the Hoppergrass by Pearson, Edmund Lester
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 Fraser, William Alexander
Your serials are the best I have ever read in any magazine; your latest one, “Jetta of the Lowlands,” promises to be an A-1 top-notcher.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various
