Tip-top (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Tip-top

The best: perhaps from fruit, that growing at the top of the tree being generally the best, as partaking most of the sun. A tip-top workman; the best, or most excellent Workman.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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