top-notch

top-notch

Stellar; excellent; the best. Can be used with or without a hyphen. That restaurant is top-notch—you'll definitely get a good meal there. This is not a case of nepotism—Astrid won the award because her project was top notch.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

top notch

the absolute best. (Hyphenated before a nominal.) Julie's singing in the musical is top notch. He prepared a top-notch meal before the movie and dessert for afterward.
See also: notch, top
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • top notch
  • top-flight
  • killer-diller
  • diller
  • dillers
  • notch below
  • stellar
  • eat out
  • in line for
  • in line for something
References in periodicals archive
The establishment of the data center by Google in Taiwan will help introduce top-notch R&D talents into the nation and upgrade the nation's overall cloud-computing system service technology, according to the economics official.
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LML Music: Run by singer Lee Lessack, LML distributes top-notch jazz, Broadway, and cabaret vocal music.
The best software in the world will not work if the hardware it's programmed into is not top-notch.
"You can only get to top-notch quality if you engineer in and build quality in the first place.
We promise to continue providing you with the highest quality of editorial and top-notch service.
We figure top-notch hitters deserve top-notch lumber, and is there any bat out there of better quality than the Louisville Slugger from Hillerich & Bradsby Co., Louisville, Ky.?
If you're seeking high-quality, deluxe reprints of solid science fiction classics to build a new collection or replace aging paperbacks, Red Jacket Press titles are for you: they are slipcased, they are solid, and they only pick the top-notch writers' works--plus, they are surprisingly affordable.
Hennis believes not only in the significance of 1 million fully paid life members, but also in the ability of the DAV to provide top-notch assistance and care for our nation's sick and disabled veterans.
Marketing herself as a supplier, she sells the stylists on her top-notch hair products and services, so they continue to seek her out for what they need.
Besides serving top-notch cuisine, Chicago's Moto restaurant dishes out edible photographs of food--flavored to taste like the real deal.
The NCAA (www2.ncaa.org) offers a speaker list that is chock-full of top-notch presenters in a wide spectrum of disciplines.
Caldwell says attracting top-notch research talent is one vital component of the community-based Science Enterprise Algoma (SEA), a bio-economic cluster and future research park that is part of a larger regional Northern Ontario Biotechnology Initiative.
But they also presented carefully chosen, top-notch work.