different between topper vs bopper

English

Etymology

From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(key): /?t?.p?/
• (AusE) IPA^(key): /?t?.p?/
• (GenAm) IPA^(key): /?t?.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

topper (plural toppers)

1. Something that is on top.
   • 1999, John Yeoman, Self Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium (page 55)

     Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.

2. A top hat.
3. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
4. (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
6. (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
7. (colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.
   • 1953, August 29, Billboard (page 4)

     Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]

8. Something for cutting off the top of something.
9. One who tops steel ingots.
10. A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
11. A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
12. (dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
    • 1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco (page 189)

      One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a "topper," dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]

13. (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
14. A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.

Related terms

• open-topper
• top off
• topper-offer
• topping

Dutch

Etymology

From top +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.p?r/
• Hyphenation: top?per
• Rhymes: -?p?r

Noun

topper m (plural toppers)

1. Someone or something excellent; a belter, a ripper.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

topper m

1. indefinite plural of topp

English

Etymology

bop +? -er

Noun

bopper (plural boppers)

1. (informal, dated) A person who dances the bop.

Derived terms

• teenybopper