top someone up Definition

top¹
noun

1. The highest part, point or level of anything.

Thesaurus: peak, summit, crown, head, crest, tip, apex, apogee, crowning point; Antonym: bottom.
2a. The highest or most important rank or position;
2b. The person holding this.
3. The upper edge or surface of something.
4. A lid or piece for covering the top of something.
5. A garment for covering the upper half of the body, especially a woman's body.
6. The highest or loudest degree or pitch.

Example: the top of one's voice
7. colloq
The very best person or thing.
Form: the tops
8. The part of a root vegetable that is above the ground.

Form: tops (usually)
(Brit)
9. autos.
top gear.

adj

1. At or being the highest or most important.

Thesaurus: highest, uppermost, topmost; Antonym: bottom.

verb topped, topping

1. To cover or form the top of something, especially as a finishing or decorative touch.
2. To remove the top of something.
3. To rise above or be better than something; to surpass.

Thesaurus: exceed, better, beat, excel, surpass.
4. To reach the top of something.
5a. slang
To kill, especially by hanging;
5b. To commit suicide.

Form: top oneself
6. golf.
To hit the upper half of (the ball).

Idiom: from top to toe

Completely; from head to foot.

Idiom: on top of something

In control of it.

In addition to it.

Very close to it.

Idiom: on top of the world

In the very best of spirits.

Idiom: top the bill

To head the list of performers in a show, as the main attraction.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.

Phrasal Verb: top something off

To put a finishing or decorative touch to it.

Phrasal Verb: top something out

To put the highest stone on (a building).

Phrasal Verb: top something or someone up

To refill (someone's glass or a container, etc) that has been partly emptied.To provide money to bring (a grant, wage or money supply, etc) to the required or desirable total.