topless

From top +‎ -less.

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topless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a top.

   The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.

2. (poetic) Very high; towering.
   • late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus:

     Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,

     And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?

3. (chiefly of a woman) Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.

   Synonyms: (of a woman) bare-breasted, (of a man) barechested, half-naked, semi-nude, shirtless, topfree

   The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.

4. (of a place) Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
   • 1971, “L.A. Woman”, in Jim Morrison (lyrics), L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors:

     Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone

   • 1975, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:

     She was workin' in a topless place / And I stopped in for beer / I just kept lookin' at the side of her face / In the spotlight so clear.

   Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.

topless (not comparable)

1. Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
   • 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:

     'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'

topless (plural toplesses)

1. (automotive) A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.

• bottomless
• monokini
• toplessness

• Postels, potless

Borrowed from English topless.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔp.ləs/

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• Hyphenation: top‧less

topless (not comparable)

1. topless (lacking clothes on the upper part of the body)

Borrowed from English topless.

topless m (invariable)

1. the state of being topless
2. a monokini or similar

• in topless

• toples

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔp.lɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɔplɛs
• Syllabification: top‧less
• Homophone: toples

topless (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. topless (naked from the waist up)

topless (not comparable)

1. topless (not wearing any clothes on the upper body)

topless m inan (indeclinable) or topless m inan

1. topless monokini

   Synonym: monokini

• topless in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

topless (invariable)

1. (of a woman) topless (naked from the waist up)

   Fazer topless. ― To go topless.

• “topless”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “topless”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

topless m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. topless

• toples

Unadapted borrowing from English topless.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoples/ [ˈt̪o.ples]
• Rhymes: -oples

topless (invariable)

1. topless (of a woman, naked from the waist up)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.