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View synonyms for top-off

top-off

[ top-awf, -of ]

noun

, Australian Slang.
  1. a person who informs on another, often as if by accident or as a joke.


top off

verb

  1. tr, adverb to finish or complete, esp with some decisive action

    he topped off the affair by committing suicide

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of top-off1

First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase top off to inform (on someone)

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