| 释义 |
top
verb- to execute someone especially by hanging or beheading; hence, to kill someone UK, 1718
- There was a chap in the death cell waiting to get topped — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 31, 1958
- “I am going round to the nearest nick to give myself up, straight I am. I mean that.” [...] “And get topped?” — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 69, 1959
- [H]e nearly topped a screw [prison warder] up at the ville[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 41, 1962
- to take the dominant, controlling role in a sado-masochistic relationship US, 1997
- “It was like that night for a few days, and then I started to mind it when he’d roll me over for his turn to top me.” — Ethan Morden, Buddies, p. 137, 1986
▶ top from the bottom; top from below
(of a sexual submissive in a sado-masochistic relationship), to take, or attempt to take, the dominant, controlling role UK- — Jay Wiseman, SM101, 1996
▶ top the hills and pop the pills
used as a stock description of a trucker’s work US- — Elementary Electronics, Dictionary of CB Lingo, p. 119, 1976
▶ top yourself
to commit suicide UK, 1718 A specific variant of TOP[H]e also took my tie and belt so that I could not top myself, even if I wanted to. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 24, 1958 I’d top myself, I know I would. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 242, 2001 |