Top

A top (also called spinning top or spintop) is a toy that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point.

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Famous quotes containing the word top:

    “No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor or Foreign Secretary—not the top jobs. Anyway I wouldn’t want to be Prime Minister. You have to give yourself 100%.”
    —Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)

    “Oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and the higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “It is not good to eat much honey, or to seek honor on top of honor.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 25:27.