topless
Americanadjective
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lacking a top.
a topless bathing suit.
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nude above the waist or hips.
topless dancers.
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featuring entertainers, waitresses, etc., who are nude above the waist or hips.
a topless bar.
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extremely high.
a topless mountain.
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Obsolete. without a peer.
adjective
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having no top
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denoting a costume which has no covering for the breasts
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wearing such a costume
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archaic immeasurably high
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Example Sentences
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Burton’s eclectic circle of friends included national political figures, Hollywood glitterati, football coach John Madden, North Beach topless dancer Carol Doda and, from his bartending days, Alice Kleupfer, a cocktail waitress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
A moment later, Antonio Rüdiger was hurling himself, topless, into a morass of delirious Real Madrid fans.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
Finally, we watch as, seemingly topless, Darling lays back in bed practicing skin-to-skin contact with her just-born son.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
The campaign illustration of five women relaxing on the beach also features a topless woman after a mastectomy.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2022
With the educations Tansy made me and Lloyd get, we went out into the world – back east to the great boom of the big city, the topless towers of Indianapolis.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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