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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Berlin’s authorities want to make it very clear: Women are free to swim topless in municipal pools, as are those who identify as nonbinary, if that’s what they want.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2023
England's captain Bobby Moore, the man that had lifted the Jules Rimet trophy four years earlier, paid Pele the ultimate compliment at full-time, swapping shirts with him, prompting their now iconic topless embrace.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2022
The husband-and-wife duo took to Instagram to share their Fourth of July activities, which included taking an oceanside ride in a topless truck with the reality star’s youngest kids.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2022
During the 2013 men’s final, a topless man carrying a fiery flare jumped onto the court.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 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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