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TOP HEAVY

Specialty Definition: TOP HEAVY

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

TOP HEAVY. Drunk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: TOP HEAVY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inversion

Top heavy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TOP HEAVY

Specialty definitions using "TOP HEAVY": collar structure. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TOP HEAVY

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

MOROCCO

The government bureaucracy is extensive and with 33 ministers is considered top heavy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TOP HEAVY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

top heavy

281

top heavy woman

22
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TOP HEAVY

Language Translations for "TOP HEAVY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shumë i rëndë në majë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неустойчив (infirm, insecure, labile, non-persistent, rickety, transient, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, weak), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, tottery, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), лесно прекатурващ се, бързо рухващ. (various references)

   

Czech

  

vratký (groggy, halting, insecure, loose, rickety, specious, unstable, unsteady). (various references)

   

French

  

trop lourd du haut. (various references)

   

German

  

kopflastig (unstable). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακροσφαλήσ (precarious), ασταθήσ (choppy, erratic, inconstant, infirm, tottering, tottery, unstable, unsteady, wabbly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pityókás (have been in the sun, have the sun in one's eyes, overshot, top-heavy), fejnehéz (top-heavy). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

terseok (bewildered, confused, unsteady because top heavy), limbung (bewildered, dry dock, fenced-in bathing place, inner harbor, unsteady because top heavy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sbilanciato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

optay eavyhay

   

Russian 

  

неустойчивый (astable, changeable, dicky, erratic, grog, groggy, inconstant, infirm, labile, ramshackle, topheavy, unballasted, unequable, unstable, unsteady, waggly, wavering, yielding). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preopterećen u gornjem delu, glomazan (bulky, clumsy, cumbersome, gross, logy, lumbering, lumpish, unwieldy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tung upptill, med för många chefer, chefstung, övertung. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

havaleli (unwieldy), aşırı yüklü (overladen), aşırı sermaye ihraç eden, aşırı değerlenmiş. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

нестійкий (astatic, broken, catching, chancy, dicky, drunk, erratic, groggy, infirm, labile, non-persistent, non-resistant, quaky, sliding, staggering, tickle, unbalanced, unfixed, unsettled, unsteady, wambly, yielding), підхмелений. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: TOP HEAVY

Misspellings

"TOP HEAVY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: topheavy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TOP HEAVY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-p-t-v-y"

-2 letters: teapoy.

-3 letters: atopy, heavy, ovate, peaty, peavy, tepoy, tophe.

-4 letters: ahoy, atop, eath, epha, haet, hate, have, heap, heat, hope, hove, hoya, hype, hypo, hyte, oath, opah, pate, path, paty, pave, peat, phat, phot, poet, tape, tepa, thae, they, toea, tope, toph, type, typo, veto, vote, yeah.

-5 letters: ape, apt, ate, ave, avo, aye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-p-t-v-y"
 

+4 letters: psychoactive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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