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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. give up one's career just as one becomes very successful;
- Example: "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out"

2. provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure);
- Example: "the towers were topped with conical roofs"
[syn: top, top out]

3. to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity;
- Example: "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"
[syn: top out, peak]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Top out \Top out\ (Building)
   To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost)
   course (called a

   top`ping-out" course).
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

top out
    v 1: give up one's career just as one becomes very successful;
         "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he
         was burned out"
    2: provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure); "the
       towers were topped with conical roofs" [syn: top, top
       out]
    3: to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity,
       activity; "That wild, speculative spirit peaked in
       1929";"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million" [syn:
       top out, peak] [ant: bottom out]