top-to-bottom

See also: top to bottom

English

Adjective

top-to-bottom (comparative more top-to-bottom, superlative most top-to-bottom)

1. Entire; thorough.

   Synonym: soup-to-nuts

   Coordinate term: end-to-end

   What this house needs is a top-to-bottom cleaning.

Noun

top-to-bottom (plural top-to-bottoms)

1. A piece of graffiti covering the whole height of a railway carriage.
   • 1984, Craig Castleman, Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York, page 57:

     Many writers felt constricted painting below the windows of cars and began to expand their pieces upward into top-to-bottoms and lengthwise into end-to-ends.

Alternative forms

• top to bottom

See also

• window-down