Top

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

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)

“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.”
—Robert M. Pirsig (b. 1928)

“it took
a nipponized bit of
the old sixth
avenue
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him”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)