topless
adj
Meaning
- Lacking a top.
- Very high; towering.
- Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.
- Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
- Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
- A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.
Etymology / origin
Etymology tree English top Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English topless From top + -less.
Related words
Descendant words
- topless(Dutch) (bor)
- topplaus(Icelandic) (calque)
- topless(Italian) (bor)
- トップレス(Japanese) (bor)
- toples(Spanish) (bor)
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