betoppered

See also: be-toppered

English

Adjective

betoppered (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of be-toppered
   • 1930 August 1, “Private Flying and Club News”, in Flight, number 1127 (volume XXII, issue 31), number 31, page 864:

     The betoppered “bottle-necker” shelters from the wrath of the Mexican Chief.

   • 1981 October 22, “Are the discount houses clever enough to survive in a gyrating money market?”, in Hamish McRae, editor, The Guardian, London, page 18:

     This might seem heretical, for discount houses, with their silk-betoppered representatives and their excellent lunches might appear the very core of the City.

   • 1984, William Rushton, “The Plot Thickens at Number Ten”, in W.G. Grace’s Last Case or The War of the Worlds - Part Two, Methuen, published 1985, →ISBN, page 173:

     Among the many veiled or black-betoppered faces registering distaste in his direction, Watson was surprised to see a good many Chinamen.