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:

    Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you’ve half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you’re doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.
    —P.J. (Patrick Jake)

    We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.
    Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

    I can’t forget
    How she stood at the top of that long marble stair
    Amazed, and then with a sleepy pirouette
    Went dancing slowly down to the fountain-quieted square;
    Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)