top out

Verb
Synonyms: top outtoppeak

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  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”Synonyms: top out
  2. provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)“the towers were topped with conical roofs”Synonyms: toptop 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”Synonyms: top outpeak
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.]

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