top out
Britishverb
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Complete the top portion of a building, as in They were scheduled to top out the dome next week . This idiom was first recorded in 1834.
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Fill up a ship or complete its cargo, as in The ship was topped out with scrap iron . This idiom was first recorded in 1940.
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Cease rising, as in Interest rates topped out at 10 percent . [Second half of 1900s]
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Retire just as one becomes very successful, as in He decided that at sixty it was time to top out . [ Colloquial ; second half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
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Their speedometer topped out at eighty miles an hour, and with his foot to the floor, Barry had them at the limit.
From Literature
Gold was also in retreat, sitting around $5,200 an ounce, a day after topping out above $5,595.
From Barron's
A trader who’s been bullish silver says it’s topped out, and that the action this week proves his case.
From MarketWatch
Its anthemic but urgent single “Beds Are Burning” became one of the group’s best-known hits, topping out at number 17 on the Hot 100 in 1988.
From Los Angeles Times
The market remains extremely overvalued, as I’ve written before, so it would not be surprising if the bull market tops out sooner rather than later.
From MarketWatch
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